TEQIP (Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme)

TEQIP (Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme)

Subject: Welfare schemes

Context: With the project near to its end it may leave more than 1,200 assistant professors out of a job and some rural colleges bereft of half their faculty.

Concept:

• The government is saying it is planning its own MERITE project to promote scientific, technical and industrial knowledge post TEQUIP completion. However, even as Tequip is coming to an end, there is not much clarity regarding the same.
• Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme is a project of Government of India assisted by World Ban
• The objective of the Program is to enhance quality and equity in participating Engineering Education Institutes and improve the efficiency of the Engineering Education System in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, 8 North Eastern States and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• The Project has two main components, (i) Improving quality and equity in engineering institutes in those states; and (ii) System-level initiatives to strengthen sector governance and performance.
• It focuses on capacity building of staffs, research fellowships and R&D infrastructure development.
• The project has been designed as a disbursement linked loan, that is, the World Bank loan will be disbursed on achievement of specific outcomes.
• Three phases of the ₹3,600-crore TEQIP project have been completed since it was launched in December 2002 (third phase will soon end).
• The third phase focused on improving quality and equity (ex- recruit more than 1,500 faculty from top institutions — four out of five are from the NITs and the IITs) in engineering institutions in seven low income, eight northeastern and three hilly States.