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The World Bank will provide Rs 228 crore to promote quality engineering education in Karnataka. Fourteen engineering colleges will benefit from it, state Higher Education Minister V.S. Acharya said.
Ten of these colleges will also be helped financially to set up centres of excellence for research in various fields, he added.
The bank is extending the finances as part of the central government's scheme of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQUIP), intended to encourage postgraduate education in engineering and research, development and innovation, the minister said.
Karnataka has over 180 engineering colleges – 14 government colleges and the rest private. Around 60,000 students are admitted into these colleges every year.
Source: igovernment
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