Union Ministry of Human Resource and Development has started the Technical Education Quality Improvement Project (TEQIP-III) for improving the quality of engineering graduates at a cost of Rs. 2,300 Cr to be implemented in 3-year period till 2020.
- The focus is on the most-backward states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, North-East, Rajasthan, MP etc.
- Under this project, all the Government engineering colleges are selected for direct intervention, and all private engineering colleges are selected for indirect intervention.
- The Ministry has recruited more than 1225 highly qualified and motivated graduates from including IITs and NITs to teach in Engineering Colleges in States/UTs like Andaman & Nicobar, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tripura, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand etc. This is the first time that such a measure has been taken to improve the quality of education.
- According to the ministry, these bright minds will bring with them the openness to innovation, new methods of teaching and enthusiasm to serve and act as agents of change. This initiative will help meet the aspirations of youth in the backward areas.
- Each of the new faculty will be paid Rs. 70,000 per month and the Government is planning to spend about Rs. 375 Cr in 3-year period on this initiative. With this measure, more than 1 lakh engineering students in the most backward areas would be benefited with better quality education.
About TEQIP
- TEQIP as a project was conceived in pursuance of the National Policy on Education 1986 (Revised in 1992) with a Goal to scale-up and improve quality of technical education and enhance existing capacities of the institutions to become dynamic, demand driven, quality conscious, efficient and forward looking, responsive to rapid economic and technological developments occurring both at national and international levels.
- TEQIP is being implemented as a World Bank assisted Project to improve the quality of technical education system in the country.
- The first phase of the project came into effect in the year of 2003.
