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Higher Education is a very important sector for short and long term economic growth and development of human resource which can take responsibility for social, economic and scientific development of the country. The country�s Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher education stands at 25 % in 2016-17, while Karnataka is 27 percent. Government has set the target of GER in Higher Education of 30 % by 2020. Higher education in Private and private aided colleges is quite expensive and making the poor difficult to access. Government colleges are the cheapest means for the poor to enroll to higher education. The policy of the Govt. of Karnataka is to take higher education to the common man and bring about regional balance. With this great vision to make higher education affordable to the poorest of the poor of all sections of the society the Government of Karnataka started Government First Grade Colleges in Karnataka under the aegis of the Department of Collegiate Education which was established in 1960. It has a mission to take action to make it easier for students of all classes of society to get access to higher education. It is concerned about all-round development of the students, is functioning in the most backward classes, women and rural students in order to encourage opportunities for higher education. GER(Gross Enrolment Ratio) in higher education is a measure of access to higher education by the population belonging to the age group 18 to 23 years. A high GER generally indicates a high degree of participation, whether the pupils belong to the official age group or not (Ghara, Mishra and Singh, 2018) and vice versa. A GER value approaching 100% indicates that the entire population belonging to an official age group corresponding to a level of education has been accommodated.