AICTE Contributions
According to the "Overall Water Management Index" released by the NITI Aayog last year, 60 crore people in the country are currently suffering from water scarcity. Moreover, about 25 lakh people die every year due to lack of availability of fresh water. In view of the water crisis, the government has launched its ambitious plan “Jal Shakti Abhiyan”. The scheme “Jal Shakti Abhiyan” with the theme, “Sanchay Jal Behtar Kal”, has commenced from 1st July 2019 The Jal Shakti Abhiyan is aimed to accelerate water harvesting, conservation and bore well recharge activities in 256 water-stressed districts. The campaign is being coordinated by central IAS officers of Joint or Additional Secretary-rank level, and celebrities to spread the awareness through TV, radio, print, local and social media.
Hon’ble HRD Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank” launched a campaign “One Student One Tree” on 20th July. This initiative is in line with the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s idea of a green and healthy environment. As a helping hand to this noble initiative and for making the students socially responsible, all AICTE approved technical institutions were requested to carry out a plantation drive by planting minimum of one tree per student to achieve the target of one crore plants. It was recommended that diverse species of trees should be planted with focus on minimum water consumption in an ecofriendly manner. Also, these trees should have suitable utility in the nearby area. As an incentive for carrying out plantation, Student may be awarded 20 “AICTE Activity Point” as defined in Chapter 6 of AICTE Internship Policy
Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving. The last edition of the hackathon saw over 5 million+ students from various engineering colleges compete for the top prize at 35+ locations. In SIH, the students would also have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within the private sector organisations and create world class solutions for some of the top companies in the world, thus helping the Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation.
AICTE’s Student Start-up Policy launched by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the then Hon’ble President of India on 16th November 2016, is designed in accordance with "Start-up India" Action plan, Govt. of India to guide and promote student driven innovations & start-ups in more than 10,000 AICTE approved institutions across the country.Visit the website: www.startup.aicte-india.org ,Soon to be world's largest youth population and with 3rd ranking in the global start-up ecosystem index, India has the potential and is on the track of becoming the global powerhouse of innovation and entrepreneurship activities in the world.
Employment Policies
The Government of India has initiated National Career Service Scheme whereby a web portal named National Career Service Portal (www.ncs.gov.in) has been launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment (India). Through this portal, job-seekers and employers can avail the facility of a common platform for seeking and updating job information. Not only private vacancies, contractual jobs available in the government sector are also available on the portal.
Agriculture is the most labour absorbing sector of the economy. In recent years, there has been a decline in the dependence of population on agriculture partly because of disguised unemployment. Some of the surplus labour in agriculture has moved to either secondary or the tertiary sector. In the secondary sector, small scale manufacturing is the most labour absorbing. In case of the tertiary sector, various new services are now appearing .
The Government of India has taken several steps to decrease the unemployment rates like launching the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme which guarantees a 100-day employment to an unemployed person in a year. It has implemented it in 200 of the districts and further will be expanded to 600 districts. In exchange for working under this scheme the person is paid 150 per day.
The National Rural Employment Programme offers people from the rural areas an equal shot at job opportunities across the nation. The growing disparity in terms of personal finance between those in the rural and urban areas has increasingly led to people from the rural areas to move to the urban areas, making urban management difficult. The NREP aims to provide employment opportunities in the rural areas, especially in times of drought and other such scarcities.
