New Delhi, July 24 - Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday asked all the states to prepare a vision document within the next three months on the targets to be achieved in the higher education sector by 2020.

'All state governments must prepare a vision document for higher education. This document must contain the state's targets for higher education till 2020, including the current state of affairs, such as number of universities and colleges and how the state perceives the quality of these institutes,' Sibal said during a meeting here with higher and technical education secretaries from states.

This vision must also outline the states' budgetary outlay for this sector.

'This paper must then propose how the state plans to increase its Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER),' he said, adding that such vision documents will help the central government plug existing holes and further boost the sector.

The minister urged the states to increase their budgetary allocations for higher education that is showing a disturbing downward trend.