Steps for development of Sanskrit language
Steps for development of Sanskrit language
The Ministry of Human
Resource Development constituted a Committee to suggest a long term vision and
road map for the development of Sanskrit under the Chairmanship of Shri N.
Gopalaswami, Chancellor, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati on 18.11.2015
which submitted its report in February, 2016.
The Committee had made several
recommendations in i) School education, ii) Higher Education, iii) Traditional
education at school level, iv) Traditional education at College level, v)
Recommendations for Veda Vidya, vi) Preservation, Propagation and Sustenance of
Veda Vidya, vii) Schemes for Development of Veda Vidya, viii) Schemes for
Development of Sanskrit, ix) Ashtaadashi (Eighteen projects for sustaining the
growth of Sanskrit. Apart from this, the Committee have also given its
recommendations on teachers training, ICT in Sanskrit schools and colleges,
Additional human resources, Call to Sanskrit scholars etc. Under its general
recommendations. This Ministry has forwarded the recommendations to the Heads
of all Bureaus/concerned organizations to look into the matter and implement
the recommendations which are implementable within the existing policy
framework of the Ministry. Further, a Committee under the Chairmanship of
Dr. K. Kasturirangan has been constituted for the preparation of New Education
Policy which is due to submit its report by 31.03.2018.
This information was
given by the Minister of State (HRD), Dr. Satya Pal Singh today in a written
reply to a Rajya Sabha question.
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Steps taken to improve the educational standards in private engineering
colleges
With a view to
improving the quality of technical education and thereby enhancing the
employability of engineering students, the following action plan has been
approved by the AICTE:
- Planning: Long-term Perspective Plans will be prepared
for technical education at State level, so that quality issues being faced
may be addressed in a focused and planned way in consultation with the
concerned State Governments. This will be a guiding document while
approving new institutions by AICTE.
- Selection: The students for the technical courses
shall be selected based on a standardized examination.
- Induction training: Every student, on
admission, shall be put through a mandatory Induction training to reinforce
the fundamental concepts and the required language skills required for the
technical education. The model curriculum and the periodicity of this
induction training will be separately notified by the AICTE.
- Revision of curriculum: Every affiliating Technical
University shall constitute subject-wise industry consultation committee
(ICC) with the mandate of examining the existing curriculum and for making
suitable changes in the curriculum every year. This process shall be
completed in the month of December each year for the courses to be offered
in the coming Academic year. Each institution, while applying for
approval, shall certify completion of this process, which will be
mandatory.
- Mandatory internships: Every student in technical
institution shall do three internships each spanning 4 to 8 weeks before
completion of the under-graduation. The responsibility will be on the
institution for helping the students in finding suitable industry or
organisation for the internship.
- Industry readiness: All students passing out
of the undergraduate courses shall be imparted technical and soft skills
required for working in the industry encompassing – managerial skills,
entrepreneurial skills, leadership skills, communication skills,
team-working skills and technical skills.
- Promoting innovation/start-ups: There shall be efforts at
every level for promoting innovation and creativity in the students. The
innovation drives like Hackathon shall be promoted, so that innovative
ideas would emerge that can be incubated in the start-up centres.
- Exam reforms: The final exams being conducted by the
institutions shall test the understanding of the concepts and the skill –
rather than the subject knowledge. A model exam format would be prepared
and shared with the institutions and the technical universities for
suitable adoption. This aspect would be reviewed at the time of
approval.
- Training of teachers: Every teacher in each of
the technical education disciplines shall mandatorily undergo an annual
refresher course delivered through SWAYAM portal, encapsulating all the
major advances in the field of their study. Online courses would also be
prepared and delivered through the SWAYAM platform for improving the
pedagogical techniques of the teachers. The participation in the courses
by atleast 50% of the faculty would be a mandatory condition for approval
of the institution. Similarly, there should be leadership training to the
heads of the institutions once in 2 years. These trainings would also be
hosted through the SWAYAM platform.
- Mandatory accreditation: At least half of all the
programmes in the technical institutions shall be accredited through the
NBA before 2022. Unless there is credible progress each year, the approval
of the institutions can be refused. In order to assist the institutions in
meeting the mandatory requirements for applying for accreditation, a
separate mechanism will be put in place.
Further, AICTE is
implementing schemes namely National Employment Enhancement Mission (NEEM) and
Employability Enhancement Training Program (EETP) to enhance the employability
of the students. In addition, AICTE has also partnered with Ministry of Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt of India, Internshala, NETiit, ICT
Academy and LinkedIn to provide internship opportunities and industry exposure
to students for aligning their technical knowhow with industry requirements.
The AICTE is not
closing down any institute on its own. However, some institutes have been
closed down based on their request, due to financial non-viability arising from
different factors including shortage of students. The Council has also decided
to reduce approved intake by 50% in the course(s) where the enrolment has been
less than 30% of approved intake for last 5 consecutive years.
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‘Study in India’ programme to attract foreign students to study in
India
Ministry of Human
Resource Development has approved ‘Study in India’ programme with, inter-alia,
the following objectives:
- To improve the soft power of India with focus
on the neighbouring countries and use it as a tool in diplomacy.
- To boost the number of inbound International
students in India.
- To double India’s market share of global
education exports from less than 1 percent to 2 percent.
- Increase in contribution of international
student in the form of direct spends, indirect spends, spillover effects.
- Improvement in overall quality of higher
education.
- Increase in global ranking of India as
educational destination.
- To reduce the export – Import imbalance in
the number of International students.
- Growth of India’s global market share of
International students
The proposed fee
waivers to meritorious foreign students in this policy will be decided by the
Institute concerned based on the following criteria:
- 100% waiver of tuition fees only for the top
25% students
- 50% waiver of tuition fees only for the next
25% students
- 25% waiver of tuition fees only for the next
25% students
- No waiver of tuition fee for remaining 25% of
students
The expenditure on
the fee waiver will have to be borne by the Institute concerned, based on
cross-subsidisation or through its existing funding. No additional cash flow
from Government is proposed for the same.
The ‘Study in India’
programme’s primary objective is to target foreign students by branding India
as an attractive education destination. As per the existing Government
framework, provision of 10-15% supernumerary seats for foreign students is
there. ‘Study in India’ programme would target the foreign students to be admitted
as per this provision, which would not have any adverse impact on the number of
seats/ admission of Indian students.
The Government has
approved an expenditure of Rs. 150 crores for the ‘Study in India’ programme
for two years 2018-19 and 2019-20 which will be primarily for brand promotion
activities.
As the inflow of
foreign students depends on various factors viz. individual will and choice,
Visa issues etc., estimation about future inflow of foreign students is not
possible.
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