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december 2017 | dl.eletsonline.com
digitalLEARNING @dl_magazine digitallearningonlineMadhya Pradesh BuILdING
TEchNIcALLy AdvANcEd
GENERATIoN
Madhya Pradesh’s directorate of Technical Education is
providing quality education with judicious allocation of
available resources to the technical institutions to contribute
to the economic well-being and quality of life of communities
it serves, shares Prof (dr) Veerendra Kumar, director,
directorate of Technical Education (dTE), Madhya Pradesh,
in conversation with divakar Mukherjee of elets News
Network (eNN).The SPF Unit
started ‘The
Technical
Education
Quality
Improvement
Programme’
(TEQIP) with
World Bank
assistance as
a long term
Programme to be
implemented in
three phases.“
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Give us an overview of MP Technical
Education Department.
The directorate of Technical Education (dTE),
Government of Madhya Pradesh, is a nodal body
for implementing technical education policies
of State and central Government, and acts as a
coordinating agency between Government, Industry
and Institutions to advise and assist the Government
in the all-round development of technical education.
dTE supports accountability and is responsible in
bringing quality technical education in the State
of Madhya Pradesh with effective and efficient
Management and interacts with external agencies
like AIcTE, cII, FIccI, R&d organisations and
institutes of higher learning for development
of educational quality. We are providing quality
education with judicious allocation of available
resources to the technical institutions so as to
contribute to the economic well-being and quality of
life of the communities it serves.How is it being ensured that technical
education of Madhya Pradesh
matches global standards?
To maintain global standards of quality education,
dTE established State Project Implementation
unit (SPIu), Madhya Pradesh, a separate unit
under directorate of Technical Education, Madhya
Pradesh to run Technical Education Quality
Improvement Programme in the State as per theproject requirement. The project activities are
coordinated through this office head SPIu, Madhya
Pradesh, in the guidance of director Technical
Education and State Project Advisor, Madhya
Pradesh. The Project coordinator is supported by
following four cells -- Monitoring and Evaluation
cell, Academic cell, Procurement cell, and Financial
Management cell
The SPF unit started ‘The Technical Education
Quality Improvement Programme’ (TEQIP) with
World Bank assistance as a long term Programme
to be implemented in three phases. TEQIP-III
has already been started by National Project
Implementation unit (NPIu), Noida in 2016. An
orientation workshop was organised by NPIu on
18th January 2017 at New delhi. In this workshop,
representatives of World Bank, officials of MhRd,
Government of India, officials of State Government
and representatives of probable Government
Funded /Aided engineering institutions have
participated and the guidelines were provided
to probable institutions of the State to prepare
their Institutional development Plans for the
participation the Project TEQIP-III.What kind of ICT-based initiatives
are being taken by the government
to boost teaching learning process in
the State?
Pioneering a unique initiative, dTE started ‘evaani’,