The Technical
Education Quality Improvement Programme of Government of
India (TEQIP) has been conceived in pursuance of the NPE-1986
(as revised in 1992). The Programme aims to upscale and
support ongoing efforts of GOI to 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.
The broad
objectives of the Programme are to create an environment
in which engineering institutions selected under the Programme
can achieve their own set targets for excellence and sustain
the same with autonomy and accountability, support development
plans including synergistic networking and services to community
and economy for achieving higher standards, and to improve
efficiency and effectiveness of the technical education
management system. The effort would provide a flexible platform
to well performing institutions to acquire excellence in
specialised areas and emerge as world-class institutions.
The
Programme will be implemented as a centrally coordinated,
multi-state, long-term Programme in overlapping phases.
Under each phase, there will be 2 to 3 cycles of selection
of well performing institutions in a competitive manner.
For the First Cycle of the First Phase, six States namely,
Uttar pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala,
Haryana and Maharastra have been selected to participate
in the programme based on their commitment and preparedness.
All other States/UTs have the option to participate in subsequent
selection cycles depending upon prepardness of their institutions.
The Programme
Components are:
Component-I:
Institutional Development (funded on competitive
basis) will undertake
- promotion
of academic excellence in institutions
- networking
for quality enhancement and resource sharing
- services
to community and industry ;
Component
-II: Systemic Management Capacity Improvement (funded
on investment proposals).
The estimated
cost of the First Phase of the Programme is Rs 1550 crores
which includes Rs 350 crores in the Central sector. The
centrally funded institutions will get funds through Central
budget and States funded institutions through their respective
States budgets. During the First Phase of the Programme
about 17-20 well performing Engineering institutions will
be developed as centers of excellence called Lead Institutions.
Each Lead institution will network with 3-5 Engineering
institutions called Network Institutions, located preferably
in the neighborhood. The Programme will support 50 to 60
Network Institutions. In addition, well performing Polytechnics
are also proposed to be upgraded to offer practice-focussed
degree level programmes as Networked Institutions.