Union Human Resource Development Ministry plans to identify central institutions in the next two to three months, which it will facilitate to emerge as world class in teaching and research. HRD Minister Smriti Irani told reporters in New Delhi that the domestic rankings of the country's educational institutes, National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), will be released in April and would assist in selecting the institutes which can be competitive worldwide.<br/><br/>In his budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said the government plans to ensure an enabling regulatory environment to encourage ten public and ten private institutions to emerge as world class. Institutions, which are involved in inter-disciplinary studies or the highest levels of research, will be chosen.