Indian universities face significant financial and academic challenges, leading to a reliance on contractual faculty for survival. A Haryana university's Vice-Chancellor highlighted that regular appointments are financially unfeasible, pushing institutions towards private sector irrelevance. Increased regulatory oversight, like Haryana's Education Regulatory Authority and the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025, signals a shift towards self-resource generation. Uncertain public funding and the difficulty of raising fees make permanent faculty positions unsustainable for teaching and research, impacting the quality of higher education.