The Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme of Government of India (TEQIP), has been conceived in pursuance of the NPE-1986 (as revised in 1992). The Programme aims to upscale and support ongoing efforts of GOI to improve quality of technical education and enhance existing capacities of the institutions to become dynamic, demand – driven, quality conscious, efficient and forward looking, responsive to rapid economic and technological developments occurring both at national and international levels.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

The broad objectives of the Programme as given below have been derived from the National Policy on Education (NPE – 1986 as revised in 1992):

a) To create an environment in which engineering institutions selected under the Programme can achieve their own set targets for excellence and sustain the same with autonomy and accountability.
b) To support development plans including synergistic networking and services to community and economy of competitively selected institutions for achieving higher standards.
c) To improve efficiency and effectiveness of the technical education management system in the States and institutions selected under the Programme.

PROGRAMME STRATEGY

The strategy for transformation of selected institutions in the Technical Education System is to promote, with appropriate policy support and modern management systems at various levels, nodes of excellence in already well performing, competitively selected Lead Institutions in a phased manner and infusion of their special qualities throughout the system through bi-directional sharing of resources with competitively selected Network Institutions.
Through this Programme well performing institutions will be developed into excellent institutions comparable to the best in the world as Lead Institutions and through networking with these institutions, performance of additional institutions in the network will be enhanced. It is expected that sub networks will evolve around the Programme institutions over a period of time, thereby diffusing the transformation effect on large part of technical education system.

PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION

The Programme funding would be through two distinct modes under two Programme Components. All activities under sub-components namely, Promotion of Academic Excellence; Networking of Institutions for Quality Enhancement and Resource Sharing; Enhancing Quality and Reach of Services to Industry and Economy; and Institutional Level System Management Capacity Improvement are covered n Programme Component-I: Institutional Development and would be funded on competitive basis.

All activities under Programme Component-II: System Management Capacity Improvement (at the Central and State levels) would be funded on the investment proposals.

JNTU College of Engineering, Anantapur is already into the project as network institution with a life time allocation of Rupees 12 crores