14 engg colleges to get Rs 228-cr quality boost

Updated on: Saturday, June 25, 2011

In a bid to create an ecosystem of research and innovation, 14 engineering colleges in the state will receive a a grant of Rs 228 crore under a World Bank-assisted quality improvement programme formalised here on Friday.

Over the next three years, six unaided, seven aided and a government engineering college in the state will receive Rs 12.5 crore each to enhance enrolment in post-graduate education, set up centres of excellence in multi-disciplinary areas and improve competence of faculty under the second phase of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP). The Centre and the state government will share the cost in the ratio of 75:25.

Speaking after the department of technical education signed an MoU with the selected colleges, higher education minister V S Acharya said, "Out of the 31 colleges selected for the World Bank-funded programme from across India, 14 are from Karnataka. No other state has so many colleges passing the rigorous eligibility criteria to participate in the programme. Some of the state colleges have got better grades than the National Institutes of Technology."

In the first phase of TEQIP between 2004 and 2009, 14 colleges were selected. Out of this, 12 have made it to the second phase. R V College of Engineering and PES Institute of Technology, both from Bangalore, are the two new colleges in the second phase. Davangere-based university BDT College of Engineering and Dharwad-based SDM College of Engineering and Technology, which participated in the first phase, haven't made it to the next phase yet.

All the 14 colleges have been granted autonomy by the Visvesvaraya Technological University. Higher education principal secretary Latha Krishna Rao said these colleges would soon offer dual degree programmes to encourage more MTech students to pursue PhDs. Ten out of 14 colleges would be approved as centres of excellence with an additional funding of Rs 5 crore each to pursue multi-disciplinary research in specific thematic areas.

Times of India

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