Bangalore :
Three engineering colleges from Karnataka feature in the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development’s (MHRD) Centres of Excellence list. Also, about 19 engineering colleges have qualified for the ministry’s technical education quality improvement programme.
MHRD’s Centres of Excellence are to get Rs 5 crore each for strengthening institutions to improve learning outcomes and employability of graduates as well as scaling up post-graduate education and demand-driven research and development.
The ministry invited applications for the establishment of the 30 Centres of Excellence in the country. In the first cycle of selections, the ministry approved 16 institutions – six National Institutes of Technology and 10 engineering colleges of the total 133 which applied.
“Out of the 10 engineering colleges, three are from Karnataka namely – RV College of Engineering, Bangalore for setting up “Centre for Macro electronics”, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore for “Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering (KaAOE) and Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur for “Centre of Applied Research and Nano Technology”,” R. V. Deshpande, Karnataka’s Minister for higher education and tourism, told reporters.
“It is proud moment for the Karnataka Government today. It has released its share of Rs 2 crore to each of these engineering colleges. In the first cycle, we bagged three Centres of Excellence and in the second cycle we hope MHRD would select some more colleges from the State,” he added.
PROJECT STRATEGY
As for the technical education quality improvement programme, about 19 engineering colleges are participating in phase II. Here, according to Deshpande, “each Government, Government-aided, private and unaided college participating is to get between Rs 4 crore to Rs 12.5 crore.”
The total cost of the project for Karnataka is Rs 177 crore and till today, Rs 33.91 crore has been released. (Rs 26.50 crore from the Central Government and Rs 7.41 crore from the State).
COLLEGES FROM KARNATAKA
The colleges that have been selected from Karnataka for this programme are: UVCE, Bangalore (Government); SJCE, Mysore (Government-aided); Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, Gulbarga (Government-aided); Malnad Engineering College, Hassan (Government-aided); BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore (Government-aided); Basaveshwara Engineering College, Bagalkot (Government-aided); Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore (Government-aided); NIE, Mysore (private aided); Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Tumkur (private aided); Siddanganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur (private aided); NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte (private aided); MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore (private aided); SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad (private aided); RV College of Engineering, Bangalore (private aided); PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore (private aided); Government Sri Krishna Rajendra Silver Jubilee Institute of Technology, Bangalore (Government); PES College of Engineering, Mandya (Government-aided); BVB college of engineering and technology, Hubli (Gvernment-aided); and Nitte Meenakshi Institute of technology, Bangalore (private unaided).
source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com / Business Line / Home> Industry> Education / by The Hindu Bureau …anil.u@thehindu.co.in / Bangalore – June 11th, 2013