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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday greeted people on Engineer's Day and said India is blessed to have a skilled and talented pool of engineers contributing to nation building. Engineer's Day is observed to mark the birth anniversary of engineer statesman M Visvesvaraya, a diwan of erstwhile Mysore kingdom, who is credited with pioneering engineering works. Modi tweeted, "Greetings to all engineers on Engineers Day. Our nation is blessed to have a skilled and talented pool of engineers who are contributing to nation building. Our Government is working to enhance infrastructure for studying engineering including building more engineering colleges." "On Engineers Day, we remember the pathbreaking contribution of Sir M. Visvesvaraya. May he keep inspiring generations of future engineers to distinguish themselves," he added. Modi also posted a snippet from one of his Mann Ki Baat broadcasts where he talked about the subject.
Samsung on Monday announced to expand its industry-academia programme to 70 engineering colleges in India, to help create a pool of talent for new-age R&D challenges.
AICTE survey found civil engineering students to be the worst performers in fundamental subjects
This is according to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2019-20.
Requirement of 75 per cent marks in class 12 was waived off
NTA has announced the JEE Main 2020 Paper 2 results. Candidates can check JEE Main results on jeemain.nic.in
We're still dealing with SMSes and calls from random colleges and vague deemed-to-be universities from all over: Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka, West Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan
NIT Karnataka non-teaching post jobs: Candidates can apply online directly from the official website (recruit.nitk.ac.in)
AICTE will only grant approval for additional seats in existing institutions based on the capacity utilisation of the institute concerned
Over 500 other private engineering institutes are likely to come under AICTE scanner