Vice Chairman, AICTE shared plan with All India Federation of Self Financing Technical Institutions (AIFSFTI)
Mohali : 7th May : AR KANDAY /KARAN SHARMA ;—–
To increase the employability after technical courses, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi is planning complete revamption of syllabus of technical courses in the Country. The war footing work in this direction has already been initiated by AICTE involving best brains for decision making.
This was said by Dr. M.P Poonia, Vice Chairman, AICTE during a meeting with the delegation of All India Federation of Self Financing Colleges Association (AIFSFTI) under the leadership of Chief Patron, Sri R S Munirathinam and President, Dr. Anshu Kataria at New Delhi.
New syllabus from 1st July for Technical Courses:
Poonia while discussing said that AICTE is planning to amend the syllabus of engineering courses from 1st July with the addition of new subjects to bring the uniformity in the curriculum in the technical Institutions throughout the Country.
Two months Industrial Training per year must for all students:
Poonia further said that the new syllabus for engineering courses will be highly technical and job oriented. He said that the syllabus will be industry linked in which it would be made compulsory for students to spend 2 months per year in an industry to link the theory with the practical. For this AICTE is tying up with CII and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) to give industrial exposure to the students.
1st year syllabus to be made practical oriented & student friendly to control dropout rate in 1st year:
Poonia further said that after the school environment when a student enters into B.Tech 1st year he feels pressurized due to change in environment, curriculum, mode of exams etc hence few of them get dropped in 1st year. Keeping the drop out rate in mind, AICTE has brought down the credit remarks from 180 to 160 to make the students comfortable and adjust in the program. The required changes would be made in 1st year syllabi to control drop out as well as to make it practical oriented & student friendly.
Technical Teacher Training would be must for all teachers:
Poonia further added that as ETT, NTT, B.Ed etc courses have been made compulsory & pre-requisite for the school teachers on the same pattern a 3 months teachers training program would be made compulsory after M. Tech for every teacher to teach technical subjects. AICTE has given this task to Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) & would spend around 9 crores in teacher training program. AICTE has decided to start 300 new technical training programs to train over 15000 new and old technical teachers to upgrade their content and delivery techniques.
300 Teacher Training Programs to be launched in June-July:
It is to be mentioned that out of 300 training programs 100 programs have been developed specially for the new teachers while 200 programs have been made for existing faculty to update their knowledge & content. The training sessions would be conducted in the engineering colleges with a batch of 40-50 teachers in the month of June & July in the engineering colleges.
Sri K V K Rao (Andhra Pradesh), CA Manmohan Garg (Punjab), Sri Srini Bhupalam (Telangana), Sri Panduranga Shetty (Karnataka), Sri P Selvaraj (Tamil Nadu), Mr. Lalit Aggarwal (Delhi), Sh. T D Esawara Moorthy (Tamil Nadu), Sh. K G Madhu (Kerala), Sh. V K Verma (Madhya Pradesh), etc were also present.