srr ata Government of India FaeetPrat ate arr heir starert Ministy of Electronics & information Technology Dr. Jaideep Kumar Mishra So “yacifran Praia / Electronics Niketan Joint Secretary 6, Hts ait sterctaH | 6, CGO Complex esa racy “a§ feeit-110003 / New Delhi-t10003 ra / Tele: 011-24364321 Website: www.meity.gov.in HRD feat | Dated, Dear Sir! Madam, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in November 2014 had approved a Scheme for setting up of seven (07) Electronics and ICT Academies in the country to address the requirement of training the faculty in the latest as well as upcoming/emerging areas of Electronics and ICT for Engineering and other streams. Accordingly, Seven (07) Electronics and ICT academies have ‘been set up and are operational at premier and leading academic institutions viz. (i) NIT Warangal (ii) IITDM Jabalpur (ii) IIT Guwahati (iv) NIT Patna (v) IT Kanpur (vi) IIT Roorkee and (vii) MNIT Jaipur. So far, academies have conducted! delivered 1,382 FDPs imparting training to several beneficiaries, including around 78 thousand faculty members and onc lakh of students/others. The training of faculty is expected to improve their teaching effectiveness and thus in-turn enhance the employability of the students. 2 During June to October 2021, these academies are going to deliver 13 Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) in emerging technologies as per the enclosed Brochure. Out of these, 10 FDPs would be delivered in the Online Live web-conferencing mode and the remaining 3 FDPs would be available in the Intelligent Self-Paced Education (iSPED) mode. The training of faculty in a State/UT is being addressed by a particular Electronics and ICT Academy as indicated in the brochure However, for registration the candidate needs to apply to any participating Academy online through its website as mentioned under details of the respective programme. 3. In order to give wider publicity and to attract large number of beneficiaries, I would like to request you to kindly instruct the concerned to please upload the common brochure on the respective website of your esteemed organization for benefit of all concerned. This would lead to enhance participation under these online courses while benefitting wider section of the targeted beneficiaries, tx cerely, (Jaidéep Kumar Mishra) With kind regards, Encl: As above To: 1) Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC) 2) Chairman, All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) 3) Chairman, National Board of Accreditation, (NBA) 4) Director General, NIELIT (with a request to nominate the eligible officials of NIELIT and its centres 10 attend the above online courses) 5) Director General, C-DAC(with a request to nominate the eligible officials of CDAC and its centres {0 attend the above online courses) Copy to: Director/ Chief Investigator of the concerned Academy (List enclosed) al Indic e fore oper ELECTRONICS INDIA inch aps Ue eH ere ireList of Address for D.O. letter No. L-14011/2/2016-HRD dated 05/07/2021 To, 1. Prof. DP. Singh Chairman University Grants Commission (UGC) Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi - 110 002 2. Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe Chairman Alll India Council for Technical Education Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 3. Prof. (Dr.) K.K Aggarwal Chairman, National Board of Accreditation, NBCC Place, East Tower, 4th floor Bhisham Pitamah Marg Pragati Vihar, New Delhi 110003 4. Shri Jaideep Kumar Mishra Joint Secretary & Director General ‘National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) Dwaraka See-8, New Delhi - 110077 5. Dr. Hemant Darbari Director General Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Pune University Campus, Ganesh Khind Pune , Maharashtra- 411 007 Copy for information and taking necessary action to: 1. Prof. Sanjeev Jain Director UITD&M ~ Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh - 482003 2. Prof. Aparajita Ojha, Chief Investigator TITD&M - Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh - 482005 3. Prof. Pradip Kumar Jain Director, ‘National Institute of Technology, Patna Ashok Rajpath, Patna, Bihar-800005 4. Dr. Bharat Gupta Chief Investigator ‘National Institute of Technology, Patna Patna, Bihar — 800005 8. Prof. Dr. T. G. Sitharam, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam10. u. 2 1B. 14. Chief Investigator Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam Prof. N.V. Ramana Rao Director National Institute of Technology, Warangal Telangana ~ 506 004 Prof. R. Bala Venkata Subramaanyam Chief Investigator National Institute of Technology, Warangal Telangana ~ 506 004 Prof. Aj Director, IIT Roorkee Haridwar Highway, Roorkee, Uttarakhand - 247667 K. Chaturvedi, Dr. Sanjeev Manhas Chief Investigator LT Roorkee Uttarakhand — 247667 Prof. Udaykumar R. Yaragatti, Director, Administrative Block —1, MNIT Campus, JLN Marg, Jaipur Rajasthan -302017 Prof. Vineet Sahula Chief Investigator MNIT Jaipur Rajasthan ~ 302017 Prof. Abhay Karandikar Director, Director's Bungalow, IIT Kanpur UP - 208 016 Prof. B. V. Phani Chief Investigator, IIT Kanpur, U.P - 208 016