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Technical Education
Quality Improvement
Programme (TEQIP) is a World Bank Assisted
Project. The World Bank had even earlier provided
funds under another Project for the aspect for
diversification of training facilities and
improvement of quality of training of Technical
Education in the last decade of the last century.
In its earlier Project the beneficiaries of the
Project were mostly Government Institutions. The
present Project i.e. TEQIP conceived and prepared in
pursuant to the National Policy on Education
(NPE-1986 revised in 1992) in an attempt to extend
the benefits of the World Bank Assistance for the
improvement of Technical Education of the autonomous
Institutions which also includes many private
Institutions engaged in imparting Technical
Education. This Project became effective from 2003
and in its first cycle only Engineering Colleges
were included for funding whereas the selection of
the Institutions for 2nd cycle which was
completed in December, 2003 in which 22 Polytechnics
of the country were selected for participation in
the said Programme and the Himachal Pradesh got the
privilege of having its following 3 Government
Polytechnics namely
Govt.
Polytechnic College Sundernagar, Hamirpur and
Kandaghat included
in the said programme
and the preparatory activities of TEQIP-II have been
in the process for quite some time. |
