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The central government has ambition to reach at least 50 higher education institutions in top 1000 world rankings. On the other hand, the NIRF was launched to rank Indian Higher Education Institutions using country based parameters for inclusive and access education with the aim of international excellence to promote quality. The NIRF helped the institutions to understand their performance by each year and to know their competitors and peer performers. This has more advantages like valuing perception, attracting industry for better placement and become reliable tool for parents and students to know about the institution. The NIRF indirectly helps the top performing institution to build their brand and wide publicity without any additional expenses on marketing and branding. At present, the ranking is listed for top 100 for all categories and top 200 in engineering categories. The scores of other participating institutions are sent individually. While the institutions matures on quality and scores high in each parameter over the years but in Rajasthan state the scoring in NIRF ranking is still in its infancy. Among top 50 even a single college from Rajasthan state could not find its place but more dramatic situation arises when we observe the number of participating colleges. Among 1802 participating colleges only 7 were from Rajasthan and even a single Government college did not participated for it. The present paper discuss the procedure for NIRF participation and few problems in participation with respect to Rajasthan state.