Technical education in India has faced many transformations from its inception, and such transformation was made from time to time to uplift and upgrade the status of Technical Education, to meet he rapid change world wide in the education sector.
Govt. of India was concerned about the vast gap in the quality of Technical Education that existed between the Premier Engineering Institutes of India and Private Engineering Institutes that kept on emerging every year.
To bridge such a vast gap, Govt. of India took several initiatives with an eye to give a decent direction and to bring the private engineering institutes at par with the few Premier Engineering Institutes of India.
Govt. of India explicitly focused on the development of the following parameters:
- Infrastructure of Engineering colleges
- Competent and quality Faculty members and Staff
- Effective teaching and learning process with modern technology
- Modernization of the entire education system in Indian
TEQIP emerged as one such endeavor initiated by Govt. of India and State Governments, where both the Central and the State Government convinced WORLD BANK for providing fund for a Systematic Transformation of Technical Education System in INDIA.
The term TEQIP was coined in the year 2003, representing a long term initiative towards the development of Technical Education System in INDIA. This programme was launched as a three phased implementation strategy, where subsequent phases would be a logical continuation of the type of lessons learnt in the previous phases.
The competition for getting the TEQIP grant was open for all the Engineering institutes of all states and Union Territories across the country. An estimate of 300 Engineering institutes took part in the competition out of which 200 Engineering institutes including Centrally Funded Institutes (CFIs) were found eligible by MHRD-India and World Bank to receive the prestigious grant. Narula Institute Of Technology was fortunate enough to receive the grant from World Bank under the Private-Unaided Category.
As a mandatory requirement of TEQIP Phase-II, Institutional Development Proposal (IDP) was then prepared and all the targets highlighted in the IDP are timely fulfilled at our institution in all possible way.
TEQIP basically emerged as a National Project to improve the learning outcomes and employability of the graduates, and scaling up Research, development and innovations. The following are the noteworthy areas in which the project will focus:
- Strengthening institutions to produce high quality engineers for better employability
- Scaling-up Postgraduate Education and demand driven Research & Development and Innovation,
- Establishing Centers of Excellence for focused applicable research,
- Enhancing Institutional and System Management effectiveness
Narula Institute Of Technology became eligible, to receive a total Grant of Rs.4 Crore from World Bank, which is indeed a landmark by itself. NIT has proposed to utilize the entire amount especially for the benefit of Students, Faculties, and Staff members with an eye to improve the institution as a whole and deliver Quality Education, Knowledge and Concepts to all it's stakeholders in the days to come. NIT would look forward to fulfill the objectives of Project TEQIP through a systematic utilization of the fund under the following broad expenditure heads:
- Infrastructure improvements for teaching, training and learning
- Providing Teaching and Research Assistantships to increase enrolment in existing and new PG programmes in Engineering disciplines
- Enhancement of R&D and institutional consultancy activities*
- Faculty and Staff Development (including faculty qualification up-gradation, pedagogical training, and organizing/participation of faculty in workshops, seminars and conferences) for improved competence based on TNA
- Enhanced Interaction with Industry
- Institutional management capacity enhancement
- Implementation of institutional reforms
- Academic support for weak students under the aegis of Finishing School
- Technical assistance for procurement and academic Activities
Narula Institute of Technology is looking forward to make the best use of this esteemed grant by involving all the stakeholders in the development process.