Polytechnic scheme implemented in the eleventh five-year plan

Updated on: Monday, December 13, 2010

Minister of State for Human Resource and Development D Purandeswari, in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, said, “The revised scheme of community development through polytechnics has been started during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan to impart skill training to rural youth, women, school drop outs, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other weaker sections of the society and under privileged groups of the society.”

The scheme is completely centrally funded and is implemented through the existing All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) approved polytechnics.

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