Engineering: The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT) is responsible for keeping India’s technical lexicon in regional languages updated.
Karnataka has reintroduced a four-year BSc (Honours) course in engineering colleges. It has drawn mixed responses.
IIT Kanpur is getting a new medical college, already has a new department of space science and astronomy, two new research centres and many plans.
IIT, NIT graduates tasked with improving engineering college standards through a central government scheme are out of jobs, in debt.
IITs now have a large number of non-tech, humanities and social science students. They don’t get the best deal in campus job drives.
As the MTech loses steam across engineering colleges, IITs are launching multidisciplinary, industry-oriented programmes to keep it relevant.
NIT Silchar is the only NIT to offer a PhD programme for doctors. Its CSE department has collaborated with doctors from Cachar Cancer Hospital for years.
UP Budget 2022-23: Yogi government has earmarked Rs 500 crore for increasing MBBS, PG medical seats; Rs 18,670.72 crore for school education scheme.
NCERT's NAS 2021 report also showed that performance in maths, language dropped as they progressed to higher classes.