Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SM)

Mangalore, Jun 5: National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NIT-K) will organize the VII Joint Review Mission (JRM) of the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) from Wednesday June 6 to Friday June 8.

Among the National Institutes of Technology NIT-K is the first to organize this event.

The event will be jointly organized by NIT-K and ministry of human resource development (MHRD), World Bank and National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU).

Addressing press persons S G Mayya, coordinator, NIT-K said that TEQIP was a Rs 1550 crore programme set forth by the MHRD to improve the quality of technical education in engineering colleges across the country.

NPIU monitored by Ravi Mathur, joint secretary, MHRD as national project director has selected NIT-K as one of the two centres in the country for the review of implementation of TEQIP by World Bank officials.

State Project Facilitation Units (SPFUs) from Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu will showcase their progress in the implementation of TEQIP on Wednesday June 6 and the same will be reviewed on June 7, said Mayya.

The directors and the project implementation groups of the respective NITs are also expected to attend the meeting.

New facilities at NIT-K like the visiting faculty apartment, health care unit and Mico-Bosch power tool centre, new kitchen and dining hall in the ladies hostel will be inaugurated on the occasion, he said.