ATAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

CONTEXT:

Union Education Minister inaugurates 46 online ATAL Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) organised by AICTE.

KEY POINTS:

46 online AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) were inaugurated to train teachers of higher education institutions associated with the All India Council of Technical Education in thrust and emerging areas in technology.The FDPs will be conducted in 22 Indian states.

ATAL Academies:

The main objective of the ATAL Academy is to provide quality technical education in the country and to promote research and entrepreneurship through training in various emerging fields.
IITs, IIITs, NITs CU and research labs are organizing these ATAL FDPs.
The ATAL Academy seeks to establish AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) cells in all the technical institutions, Universities, Deemed-to-be Universities and other institutions of technical learning.
The ATAL Academies also conduct a series of training programmes in various emerging fields across the country.
Currently, there are eleven ATAL academies in India, spread all over the country. 6. The ATAL Academy has also been included in the Book of World Records, London for training over 1 lakh people in 1000 programs under ‘FDP’.

SOURCE: PIB

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