Nirmal reviews progress of World Bank aided project

Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, July 7: Nirmal Sharma, State Project Administrator, State Project Implementation Unit (SPIU), J&K in the meeting held today reviewed the progress made in J&K State under World Bank aided project of MHRD, Government of India launched with the objective to upscale and improve the quality and enhance the existing capacities of the institutions to become demand driven, quality conscious, efficient and forward looking, responsive to rapid economic and technological developments occurring at National and International level.
While discussing the various steps initiated by the participating institutions to strengthen their institutions to achieve the objectives of the project, she emphasised to gear up the activities under Start up Cells and Industry Institutions Interaction Cells so that bright innovative ideas of the students are transformed into start-up businesses.
She further stressed that the participating institutions should expedite to fulfil the parameters laid down for seeking accreditation with NBA for starting new M.Tech. /Ph.D. courses in the participating institutions at the earliest.
She discussed the work plans of the institutions for faculty development, online courses and workshops/trainings for students & faculty. She underscored the need to start GATE Coaching which will be provided to students free of cost within their institutions by renowned Service Providers of the country under this project.
This would help students to qualify GATE and seek admissions to various Post-Graduate education programs (e.g. Master of Engineering/ Master of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy). For bridging the skills gaps between the academia and industry, students would be receiving coaching on employability skills in order to ensure that the engineering students of these institutions are “Industry-ready students”.
The meeting was attended by  Dr Sameru Sharma Principal GCET Jammu ,Prof. Iqbal Parwez Registrar BGSBU Rajouri ,TEQIP Coordinators and Nodal Officers (Academics, Finance & Procurement) of BGSBU Rajouri, GCET Jammu, IUST Awantipora , SMVDU Katra and  SPIU J&K .

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