AICTE Launches AICTE-IDEA Labs for 49 Engineering Colleges


All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the leading regulatory body for technical education in India has announced a development scheme, AICTE-IDEA Labs for engineering students throughout the country.

AICTE Launches AICTE-IDEA Labs for 49 Engineering Colleges



AICTE has plans to launch AICTE- Labs in engineering colleges. The initiative is aimed at training engineering students to become imaginative and creative. Meanwhile, AICTE also collaborated with CareerLabs to launch NEAT 2.0 to help students build a profile for an apt professional career. 

AICTE to Launch AICTE-IDEA Labs in Engineering Colleges 

The idea behind AICTE IDEA labs to be set up in different institutes of the country is to promote creativity and new ideas that can provide meaningful and positive changes in society.

AICTE has selected 49 engineering institutes throughout the country that will be installed with IDEA labs. A large number of private institutions, more than 80%, have been selected for this purpose.

These labs will be built and developed in a phased manner as per the announcement. The first phase is set to include education institutes that are established in non-metro cities of 16 states and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Proposals for the schemes were invited in January of 2021 and were then evaluated by the National Steering Committee. The second phase of the scheme is planned to include metro cities.

The motivation behind IDEA labs is to provide students with knowledge that is beyond the textbook so that students can learn to become imaginative and produce creative ideas that can be then developed into meaningful inventions.

The approved institutions are given directions to organise training sessions for interested students and provide insights and support to the projects which are thus brought forward. The training material and sessions are currently being planned to be provided in an online format.

Rajive Kumar, AICTE secretary asserted, “There should be no lock put on IDEA Lab which should work on trust, allowing free access to facilities 24x7. The IDEA Labs in smaller cities will strengthen the innovation ecosystem of the country.”

“As a common facility embedded in the institution, the IDEA Lab will make engineering graduates more imaginative and creative, besides getting basic training in the 21st-century skills like- critical thinking, problem-solving, research, collaboration, communication, lifelong learning, etc,” an official statement reads.

The IDEA Lab also intends to encourage teachers to conduct “multidisciplinary education and research” emphasized in the National Education Policy, NEP 2020. About 80% of educational institutions selected by AICTE are private. According to Kumar, about 600 colleges had applied to set up the labs including government colleges. " The participation of government colleges was low and many such colleges were rejected as they did not meet the parameters set by AICTE," Kumar said.

List of selected institutes by AICTE for AICTE IDEA Labs:

Name of Institute City  State
Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur Haldia West Bengal
Haldia Institute of Technology Durgapur West Bengal
Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology Gautam Budh Nagar Uttar Pradesh
Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology Meerut Uttar Pradesh
ABES Engineering College Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh
JSS Academy of Technical Education Noida Uttar Pradesh
Muthayammal Engineering College Rasipuram Tamil Nadu
R.M.K. Engineering College Kavaraipettai Tamil Nadu
Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College Coimbatore Tamil Nadu
Gita Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar Odisha
Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College Puducherry Puducherry
Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology Jaipur Rajasthan
Balaji Institute of Technology & Science Narsampet Telangana
Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana
Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences Warangal Telangana
Potti Sriramulu Chalavadi Mallikarjuna Rao College of Engineering and Technology Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh
QIS College of Engineering & Technology Ongole Andhra Pradesh
Sagi Ramakrishnam Raju Engineering College Bhimavaram Andhra Pradesh
Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College Rangampet Andhra Pradesh
Vignan's Institute of Information Technology Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh
Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management And Technology Guwahati Assam
Bhilai Institute of Technology Durg Chhattisgarh
Shri G.S.Institute of Tech & Science Indore Madhya Pradesh
D.K.T.E. Society's Textile & Engineering Institute Ichalkaranji Maharashtra
K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research Nashik Maharashtra
Kasegaon Education Society's Rajarambapu Institute of Technology Islampur Maharashtra
Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management & Technology Raipur Chhattisgarh
A.D.Patel Institute of Technology Anand Gujarat
G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology Vallabh Vidyanagar Gujarat
Panipat Institute of Engineering & Technology Panipat Haryana
Acropolis Institute of Technology And Research Indore Madhya Pradesh
Lakshmi Narain College of Technology Bhopal Madhya Pradesh
Oriental Institute of Science & Technology Bhopal Madhya Pradesh
Samrat Ashok Technological Institute Vidisha Madhya Pradesh
B V Raju Institute of Technology Narsapur Telangana
Birla Institute of Technology Ranchi Jharkhand
B V V Sangha's Basaveshwar Engineering College Bagalkot Bagalkot Karnataka
Kle Dr. M. S. Sheshgiri College of Engineering And Technology, Belgaum Belgaum Karnataka
Malnad College of Engineering Hassan Karnataka
Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology Coimbatore Tamil Nadu
K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology Tiruchengode Tamil Nadu
Siddaganga Institute of Technology Tumkur Karnataka
St. Joseph Engineering College Mangalore Karnataka
Amal Jyothi College of Engineering Kottayam Kerala
Rajadhani Institute of Engineering And Technology Attingal Kerala
TKM College of Engineering Kollam Kerala
Kolhapur Institute of Technology's College of Engineering Autonomous Kolhapur Kolhapur Maharashtra
Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering And Technology Nanded Maharashtra
C.V. Raman Global University Bhubaneswar Odisha

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