Empanelled For Gate Training Under Teqip-III
The
Project will focus on the following objectives:
- Improving quality and equity in
engineering institutions in focus states viz. 7 Low Income States (LIS ),
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))
- 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
- Twinning Arrangements to Build
Capacity and Improve Performance of institutions and ATUs participating in
focus states.
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 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.
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 neighbors.
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.
The funding pattern details with
respect to Government funded, Government aided institutions, and ATUs are given
in Section 6.
A set of Government orders for States
and UTs is to be issued to achieve a high and sustained impact on the Project.
These orders are to give the project institutions adequate decision-making
powers that will enable and encourage them to deliver quality education and
undertake research in an efficient manner. The primary focus is to increase the empowerment of institutions for self-governance and create incentives for
achieving excellence in engineering education.
The project institutions will be
required to implement academic and non-academic reforms within their
self-conceived development programmes that focus on quality and relevance,
excellence, resource mobilization, greater institutional autonomy with
accountability, research, and equity.
Professional development programmes for
engineering-education policy planners, administrators, and implementers at the
Central, State, and University levels will be organized. The Project will also
support the development of more efficient governance activities.
The Project will lay major emphasis on monitoring and evaluation. The prime responsibility of monitoring will lie with the institutions themselves. The management structure at the Institutional level i.e. the Board of Governors (BoG) along with the Head of the institution will monitor the progress of Institutional projects on a regular basis and provide guidance for improving the performance of the institution in project implementation. The information from project institutions will be collected through a scalable web-based Management Information System (MIS). State Governments will also regularly monitor and evaluate the progress of institutions. The Government of India and the World Bank will conduct bi-annual Joint Reviews of the Project with assistance from the National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU). The monitoring will be based on Institutional Development Proposals (IDPs) and Action Plans for ATUs prepared by each project institution and achievements will be measured through a set of performance indicators. The monitoring will focus on the implementation of reforms by institutions, achievements in project activities under different sub-components, procurement of resources and services, utilization of financial allocations, and achievements in faculty and staff development and management development activities.
In the project, the technical
assistance to AICTE is planned which will include designing an assessment
system to track student learning at different points of the undergraduate
program. Surveys of students, faculty, non-teaching staff, and administrators
will deepen insight into how institutes address specific problems related to
student learning. Assessments will be designed to provide feedback to institutes
on how and where to improve, without putting undue pressure on students.
In this project, the fund will be linked to the Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs) and will be disbursed only after achieving and verification of some of the indicators.