Eleventh Five Year Plan

28 Eleventh Five Year Plan• 1617 engineering and technology colleges, 1292polytechnics,• 525 institutions for diploma in pharmacy,• 91 Schools for Hotel Management and 4 Institutionsfor Architecture in 2006.• For postgraduate courses, these are 1147 educationalinstitutions, for Master of Business Administration(MBA)/Post Graduate Diploma in Management(PGDM) and 953 for Master of Computer Applications(MCA).• 7 Deemed-to-be-Universities, namely, IndianInstitute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Indian Schoolof Mines, Dhanbad, School of Planning and Architecture,New Delhi, Indian Institute of InformationTechnology and Management, Gwalior and IndianInstitute of Information Technology (IIIT),Allahabad, Indian Institute of Information Technology,Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur andKanchipuram.• 4 Boards of Apprenticeship Training, etc.• National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology,Ranchi.• National Institute of Industrial Engineering,Mumbai.• Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology(SLIET).• North Eastern Regional Institute of Science andTechnology (NERIST), Itanagar.• 4 National Institute of Technical Teachers Trainingand Research (NITTTRs).1.3.34 Many central programmes/schemes contributesignificantly to technical education. These include:• Programme for Apprenticeship Training (Scholarshipsand Stipends),• Community Polytechnics (CP),• Technician Education Project-III assisted bythe World Bank for Improvement of PolytechnicEducation,• Technical Education Quality ImprovementProgramme (TEQIP),• Polytechnics for Disabled Persons,• National Programme on Technology EnhancedLearning (NPTEL).• National Programme for Earthquake EngineeringEducation,• INDEST,• Consortium and Technology Development Missions.1.3.35 The dispersal of degree level technical institutionsin the country is however highly skewed. AndhraPradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Maharashtraaccount for nearly 55% of the engineering collegesand 58% of enrolments in the country. The State-wisedistribution of national institutions is even worse(Annexure 1.2).Tenth Plan Performance1.3.36 The Tenth Plan period saw a big increase in thenumber of technical and management institutions,mainly due to private initiatives. During the Tenth Plan,the number of AICTE approved Degree Engineering/Technology institutions has risen from 1057 to 1522and the annual intake from 2.96 lakh to 5.83 lakh. Theaggregate number of technical institutions and theintake capacity by the end of Tenth Plan were 4512and 7.83 lakh, respectively.1.3.37 During the Tenth Plan the University ofRoorkee was upgraded to an IIT and the number ofIITs increased to seven. Seventeen RECs, two IndianInstitutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs)at Pune and Kolkata were also set up and threeother institutions were upgraded to NIT level. Anew Indian Institute of Information Technology,Manufacturing and Design was established at Jabalpurmaking it the third institute in the series. All the fourTechnical Teacher Training Institutes were upgradedas NITTTR. Several engineering colleges were conferredwith Deemed to-be-University status. Manyprivate universities became operational impartingtechnical education through legislation of various StateGovernments. Bengal Engineering College, a deemeduniversity, was conferred with the status of unitaryuniversity and redesignated as Bengal University ofScience and Technology. In several States, technicalinstitutions were brought under the purview of newTechnical Universities and this improved qualityand standards.1.3.38 The AICTE and INDEST have joined hands toform a combined AICTE-INDEST Consortium.