PROMOTING TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOR WOMEN - SETTING UP RESIDENTIAL POLYTECHNICS FOR WOMEN
23.1 A scheme to establish residential polytechnics for women was formulated and got approved with the following objectives:
- To improve technical education of women qualitatively and quantitatively.
- To identify, start and conduct engineering and technology based diploma courses and advanced technician courses includ- ing those in high technology areas, consistent with - employment potential.
- To offer short-term continuing education programmes to update working women technicians and offer non-formal courses to housewives and unemployed women.
- To provide incentives through freeships and stipends for increasing opportunity for women's entry to polytechnic courses.
- To act as pace setters and lead institutes to promote the setting up and development of more such ploytechnics by the State Governments.
- One Polytechnic has been approved for the current year under this scheme.
23.2 Each polytechnic will run 6 to 8 engineering and 1 or 2 non- engineering diploma courses, and about five advanced technician courses. The polytechnic will have a Board of Management for developing the system and to ensure their efficient and effective performance.
23.3 The agencies involved in establishing the polytechnic will include: Ministry of Human Resource Development, All India Council for Technical Education, Educational Consultants India Limited, Technical Teachers' Training Institutes, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Nodal Centres of National Technical Manpower Information System, All India Board of Technical Education, the State Governments and their agencies including the State Boards of Technical Education.
23.4 A National Expert Committee has been constituted to examine the proposals and make recommendations on selection of site, identification of courses, mechanism for implementation and other relevant aspects. The schemes received from the State Governments are under examination of the National Expert Committee.
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