Chandrakant Patil Thanks PM Modi For Selection Of Maharashtra For Multidisciplinary Education Project

Mumbai, 6th January 2023: According to the recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP), the Multidisciplinary Education and Research Improvement in Technical Education project is being implemented by the Central Government with the help of the World Bank. Maharashtra has been selected for the same.

Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the same.

Under this project, the central government has selected a total of 15 states in the country. Maharashtra is included in it, informed Chandrakant Patil.

For this project, approximately 150 to 175 degree institutes and 100 diploma institutes in the country will be selected by the centre and the state based on the criteria of the project. This project will cost a total of Rs 4,200 crores and the project duration is five years.

Rs ten crore to each degree institution selected in the project and Rs five crore to each diploma institution will be received from the central government during the project period.

These include the modernization of laboratories, classrooms, and other educational facilities in institutions, improvement of curriculum, digitization, training in new technologies, promotion of research, the establishment of new centers of excellence and strengthening of existing centers of excellence, promotion of innovation and patents, administrative reforms in institutions i.e. management establishment of the board, the establishment of internal quality assurance cell, training of teachers, grant for starting multidisciplinary courses.

“The said project will help the institutions in the state to increase the educational standard by using this grant,” Patil added further.