Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Aug 3: The Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) Rajouri has been sanctioned an additional grant of Rs 1.10 crore by National Projects Implementation Unit, MHRD under its Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-III), funded jointly by World Bank and MHRD.
The BGSBU was amongst 180 institutions initially selected under this programme with the initial funding of Rs 10 crores for academic and infrastructure development of School of Engineering & Technology (SoET). Under this programme, all the laboratories were revamped and are now equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. All the classrooms have been converted into smart class rooms with ICT enabled facilities. Students have been provided free GATE Coaching and Professional Development Training and internship programmes. The progress of this entire programme is closely monitored by NPIU and World Bank and high performing institutions are given incentives in terms of additional grant based on the stringent evaluation of the performance benchmarks.
BGSBU, in the first stage evaluation, qualified amongst ‘High Performing Institution’ and was sanctioned an additional grant of Rs 1.0 crore enhancing its budget to Rs 11 crore. Recently, during the second stage of evaluation of performance, BGSBU, based on its excellent progress, has once again qualified for an additional grant of Rs. 1.1 crore taking its total sanctioned budget to Rs 12.1 crore which is a significant achievement and will go a long way to refurbish and further augment the facilities and academic standards at SoET.
Prof Javed Musarrat, Vice Chancellor BGSBU said that under TEQIP-III, BGSBU aims at improving the quality of technical education and enhancing the capacity building of the School of Engineering and Technology to become responsive to rapid economic and technological developments occurring both at national and international levels.
Prof Iqbal Parwez, Dean Academic affairs and Coordinator TEQIP-III said that under TEQIP-III, School of Engineering and Technology, BGSBU has undergone a substantial change as a result of a series of academic, infrastructural and administrative reforms.
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