History of Regional Engineering Colleges (original) (raw)
During the second five-year plan (1956–60) in India, a number of industrial projects were contemplated. To ensure enough supply of trained personnel to meet the demand for these projects, a decision was taken to start the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), at the rate of one per each major state, which can churn out graduates with good engineering merit. Thus, seventeen RECs were established from 1959 onwards in each of the major states. Each college was a joint and cooperative enterprise of the central government and the concerned state government. Today, all these institutes now offer degree courses at various bachelors, masters and doctorate levels in various branches of engineering and technology. The entire non-recurring expenditure and expenditure for post-graduate courses during
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | During the second five-year plan (1956–60) in India, a number of industrial projects were contemplated. To ensure enough supply of trained personnel to meet the demand for these projects, a decision was taken to start the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), at the rate of one per each major state, which can churn out graduates with good engineering merit. Thus, seventeen RECs were established from 1959 onwards in each of the major states. Each college was a joint and cooperative enterprise of the central government and the concerned state government. Today, all these institutes now offer degree courses at various bachelors, masters and doctorate levels in various branches of engineering and technology. The entire non-recurring expenditure and expenditure for post-graduate courses during the REC times were borne by the central government. As regards in the REC system the entire recurring expenditure on undergraduate courses, the same was shared by the central government and the state government on 50:50 basis. However, after becoming National Institutes of Technology (NITs) the entire funding is managed by the center now. REC system served well but as time passed some state governments showed lack of responsibility to take them in right direction. Following the long-standing demand for more Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) the then Minister of Human Resource Development Murli Manohar Joshi decided to upgrade the RECs to NITs. In 2003, all RECs were upgraded to NITs and central government took control to run these Institutes. (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | http://nitcouncil.org.in/data/pdf/nit-acts/act2007.pdf http://nith.ac.in/nith/%3Fpage_id=11945 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 5492473 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 11534 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1117338699 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Murli_Manohar_Joshi dbr:Delhi_College_of_Engineering dbc:History_of_education_in_India dbr:Indian_Institutes_of_Technology dbr:Institutes_of_National_Importance dbr:National_Institutes_of_Technology dbr:Minister_of_Human_Resource_Development dbr:Ministry_of_Human_Resource_Development dbr:Regional_Engineering_Colleges |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:National_Institutes_of_Technology dbt:Reflist |
| dct:subject | dbc:History_of_education_in_India |
| rdfs:comment | During the second five-year plan (1956–60) in India, a number of industrial projects were contemplated. To ensure enough supply of trained personnel to meet the demand for these projects, a decision was taken to start the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), at the rate of one per each major state, which can churn out graduates with good engineering merit. Thus, seventeen RECs were established from 1959 onwards in each of the major states. Each college was a joint and cooperative enterprise of the central government and the concerned state government. Today, all these institutes now offer degree courses at various bachelors, masters and doctorate levels in various branches of engineering and technology. The entire non-recurring expenditure and expenditure for post-graduate courses during (en) |
| rdfs:label | History of Regional Engineering Colleges (en) |
| owl:sameAs | wikidata:History of Regional Engineering Colleges https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4mDGL |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:History_of_Regional_Engineering_Colleges?oldid=1117338699&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:History_of_Regional_Engineering_Colleges |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of | dbr:History_of_RECs dbr:History_of_recs |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:History_of_RECs dbr:History_of_recs |
| is rdfs:seeAlso of | dbr:National_Institute_of_Technology,_Tiruchirappalli |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:History_of_Regional_Engineering_Colleges |