IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL/CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEME “UPGRADATION OF 1396 GOVERNMENT ITIS THROUGH PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP”

For improving the quality of vocational training in the country and make it demand driven so as to ensure better employability of the graduates, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today gave its in-principle approval for Implementation of Central/Centrally Sponsored Scheme “Upgradation of 1396 Government ITIs through Public Private Partnership” for the XI Plan period and approval for implementation of the scheme for one year for the first batch of 300 ITI at a total cost of Rs.774.50 crore. Out of Rs.774.50 crore, Rs.750 crore shall be used for upgradation of 300 ITIs and Rs.24.5 crore shall be used for management, monitoring and evaluation of the scheme. Under the Public Private Partnership mode, for each ITI to be upgraded, an Industry Partner will be associated to lead the process of upgradation. The Industry Partner will be selected by the State Government in consultation with the Industry Associations. An Institute Management Committee (IMC) will be constituted for each selected ITI. The IMC will consist of following members: (i) Industry Partner or his representative, as the Chairperson(ii) Four Members from local industry to be nominated by the Industry Partner(iii) Five members to be nominated by the State Government(iv) Principal, ITI as ex-officio member Secretary of the IMC After the approval, 300 selected ITIs will be upgraded through Public Private Partnership. Industry partner will be involved in all aspects of training from development of curriculum to trade testing. Academic and financial autonomy given to the ITIs will improve their internal and external efficiency. The demand driven and improved quality of training will lead to better employability of ITI graduates.

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SETTING UP OF INDIAN INSTITUTES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (IISERS)AT BHOPAL AND THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for setting up of two Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram, at a total cost of Rs. 1000 crores ( Rs. 500 crore per Institute). Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram are the fourth and fifth in the chain of IISERs to be set up in the country by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The Government of India has decided to create the IISERs with the unique objective of integrating undergraduate education, postgraduate education and research under the same umbrella. The basic idea of IISER is to create research universities of the highest caliber in which teaching and education will be totally integrated with the state of the art research. These universities will be devoted to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in sciences in an intellectually vibrant atmosphere of research. One of the important goals of creating these universities is to make education and careers in basic sciences more attractive by providing opportunities in integrative teaching and learning of sciences and breaking the barriers of traditional disciplines. One other significant concept of the proposed IISER is to actively forge strong relationship with existing universities and colleges and network with laboratories and institutions, in order to share and complement faculty resources as well as research, library and computational facilities. The IISER shall have programmes of study called Schools in various interdisciplinary areas of Biological Sciences, Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences and Materials Sciences. Each Institute is expected to have about 2000 undergraduate students, postgraduate students and research scholars, and about 200 faculty members, across disciplines.

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Endorsement letter to Hon'ble MPs in Hindi

सेन्ट्रल University coming up in Bihar: IISER in queue : Dr. Hussnain

On the recommendation of Scientific council of PM , MHRD has given confirmation for establishment of one Central University in Bihar. The direction to this effect has already been given by MHRD dept to Govt of Bihar.
This statement was given by Prof Hussnain, a member of Scientific advisory council of PM and promoter of BiharBrains during my long telephonic conversation for inviting him in Scientific foresight.

During conversation he expressed his views about IISER and said that we should keep pressure on govt and political parties for getting IISER in bihar.
He said , being member of scientific advisory council of PM , he will take his utmost possible effort.