Lok Sabha Question No. 2257 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-24
Subject: Empowering Teaching Faculty
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SANTOSH AHLAWAT, SUNIL KUMAR SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2257 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.12.2018

## Empowering Teaching Faculty

## 2257.  SHRIMATI SANTOSH AHLAWAT: SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  Government  has  started  two  new  programes  to  empower  the  higher  education teaching faculty and if so, the details thereof along with the number of institutes who will offer courses, State/UT-wise;

(b) whether the Government has tied up with foreign universities also for the new programmes and if so, the details thereof; and

(c) whether the Government has prepared any data of number of patents registered by Centrally funded technology institutions in the current year and previous four years and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## (Dr. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a)  and  (b):  The  Government  launched  the  Central  Sector  Scheme  of  Pandit  Madan  Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers & Teaching (PMMMNMTT) with an outlay of Rs. 900 crore  with  objective  to  pursue  the  long  term  goals  of  building  a  strong  professional  cadre  of teachers  and  creating  top  class  institutional  facilities  for  innovative  teaching  and  professional development of teachers. Under this scheme, among other various institutional arrangements/components,  two  new  programmes  namely  'Annual  Refresher  Programme  In Teaching (ARPIT) through discipline specific National Resource Centres (NRCs)' and 'Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP)' have been launched on 13 th November 2018.

Through 'Annual Refresher Programme In Teaching' (ARPIT), all in-service teachers, irrespective of their subject and seniority have been given an enabling opportunity to keep abreast of the latest developments in their disciplines through an online mode using Study Webs of Active - Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM) platform towards latest developments in the subject,  pedagogical  improvements  and  methodologies  for  transacting  revised  curriculum.  75

discipline-specific  National  Resource  Centres(NRCs)  including  PMMMNMTT  centres,  UGCHRDCs, Central Universities, IIT's, IIIT's, NIT'S, NITTTR's and IGNOU have been notified as NRCs.  These  75  discipline-specific  NRCs  under  ARPIT  are  located  in  the  following  24 States/UTs: 2 in Assam, 2 in Bihar, 2 in Chhattisgarh, 1 in Chandigarh, 7 in Delhi, 1 in Goa, 2 in Gujarat, 3 in Haryana, 2 in Jammu & Kashmir, 1 in Jharkhand, 4 in Karnataka, 1 in Kerala, 8 in Madhya Pradesh, 10 in Maharashtra, 1 in Mizoram, 1 in Odisha, 1 in Puducherry, 2 in Punjab, 3 in Rajasthan, 5 in Tamil Nadu, 3 in Telangana, 7 in Uttar Pradesh, 2 in Uttarakhand and 4 in West Bengal. Complete list of these 75 NRCs can be accessed at http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/document-reports/PMMMNMTT\_Guidelines\_Revised.pdf.

Leadership for Academicians Programme  (LEAP)  is a three weeks Flagship leadership development training programme (2 weeks domestic and one week foreign training) for second level academic functionaries in public funded higher education institutions. The main objective is to prepare second tier academic heads who are potentially likely to assume leadership roles in the future. The programme would provide senior faculty, with high academic credentials, the required leadership  and  managerial  skills  including  skills  of  problem-solving,  handling  stress,  team building work, conflict management, developing communication skills, understanding and coping with  the  complexity  and  challenges  of  governance  in  HEIs,  financial  &  general  administration. The  implementation  of  LEAP  Programme  will  be  through  15  Indian  Institutions  which  were selected  on  the  basis  of  their  NIRF  ranking  (within  Top  20  in  NIRF  rankings).  The  foreign Universities identified for the training by the participating institutions under the scheme will be within the top 100 in the world global rankings.

These  initiatives  are  being  implemented  for  capacity  building  of  teachers  and  senior  academic functionaries.

(c): The information is being collected.

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