TEQIP III

Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme TEQIP Phase – III

The Project, Third phase of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (referred to as TEQIP-III) is fully integrated with the Twelfth Five-year Plan objectives for Technical Education as a key component for improving the quality of Engineering Education in existing institutions with a special consideration for Low Income States and Special Category States and support to strengthen few affiliated technical universities to improve their policy, academic and management practices.

Objectives

The Project will focus on the following objectives:

  • (a) Improving quality and equity in engineering institutions in focus states viz. 7 Low Income States (LIS1 ), eight states in the North-East of India, three Hill states viz. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (a union territory (UT))
  •   (b) System-level initiatives to strengthen sector governance and performance which include widening the scope of Affiliating Technical Universities (ATUs) to improve their policy, academic and management practices towards affiliated institutions, and
  • (c) Twinning Arrangements to Build Capacity and Improve Performance of institutions and ATUs participating in focus states.

 

Scope

Only the Government and Government aided AICTE approved Engineering institutions/Engineering faculty/Engineering Teaching Department/Constituent Institutions of Universities/Deemed to be Universities and new centrally funded institutions in SCS will be the part of the project. An estimated 200 Government and Government funded Engineering institutions including Affiliating Technical Universities (ATUs) will be selected under different sub-components in one or two cycles.

Project Strategy

The project will be implemented in alignment with the 12th Five Year Plan (2012- 17), based on faster, sustainable, and inclusive growth. It emphasizes increasing the supply of highly-skilled workers to drive the economy, as well as helping low income states catch up with their more advanced neighbours. The Project will be implemented through the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) of the Government of India as a Central Sector Scheme (CSS), wherein 100% funds will be provided as grants to the States, Institutions& ATUs.
TEQIP III is fully integrated with the Twelfth Five-Year Plan objectives for Technical Education and MHRD, Govt of India as a key component for:

  1. Improving the quality of Engineering Education in existing institution with a special consideration for low Income states and Special category states.
  2. Support to strengthen few affiliated technical university to improve their policy, academic and management practices.
  3. Twinning Arrangements to build capacity and improve performance of institution and ATUs participating in focus states.

Activities

The activities that are carried out under TEQIP-III

Contact

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