Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme

The government is planning to replace the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) with a new programme MERITE Project.

About the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme:

It was started in 2002 by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development with the assistance of the World Bank and is being implemented in a phased manner.
It aims to upscale the quality of technical education and enhance the capacities of institutions.
The Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme III (TEQIP-III) was started in 2017 and will be completed by 2021.
The Objective is to improve quality and equity in engineering institutions in focus states such as in low-income states.

About MERITE Project:

The project has an objective to improve technical education like the TEQIP.
However, the MERITE Project is still in the conceptual stage and has not yet received Cabinet approval.

Source: TH

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