Archive · 8 Sep 2026
AICTE Launches Skills and Innovation Initiatives for Students
AICTE has announced two programmes to help students and researchers.
One programme is being run with Nemetschek India.
It will create special learning centres at 10 colleges.
More than 25,000 students will learn skills for jobs in construction and engineering.
They will also receive training in Building Information Modelling.
The second programme will support research that can lead to useful inventions and businesses.
It plans to fund 150 PhD fellowships over five years.
Fellows will receive monthly financial support that increases during the later years.
AICTE and Nemetschek India signed an MoU to strengthen industry-academia collaboration.
The partnership will establish Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Centres of Excellence in 10 AICTE-affiliated institutions.
More than 25,000 Civil Engineering and related-discipline students will receive training for emerging AEC roles.
The programme includes a three-credit course and 50-hour training promoting Building Information Modelling.
AICTE launched a Rs 245 crore doctoral fellowship programme expected to support 150 PhD fellowships over five years.
- Who
- The All India Council for Technical Education, Nemetschek India Private Limited, and participating students and researchers.
- What
- AICTE signed an MoU for AEC skills centres and launched the AICTE Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellowship Programme.
- When
- The fellowship programme was launched on Thursday; the articles do not specify the date of the MoU signing.
- Where
- The skills centres will be established in AICTE-affiliated institutions; no specific locations are identified.
- Why
- The initiatives aim to promote industry-relevant skills, practical research, innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and societal impact.
- Skills partnership
- AICTE and Nemetschek India Private Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
- Centres of Excellence
- AEC Centres of Excellence will be established in 10 AICTE-affiliated institutions.
- Students targeted
- More than 25,000 Civil Engineering and related-discipline students will be upskilled and reskilled.
- Training format
- The programme includes a three-credit skilling programme and 50-hour Building Information Modelling training.
- Doctoral programme
- The AICTE Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellowship Programme has a proposed Rs 245 crore outlay over five years.
- Expected fellowships
- The doctoral programme is expected to support 150 PhD fellowships.
- Fellowship amounts
- Fellows will receive Rs 60,000 per month in the first three years and Rs 70,000 per month in the fourth and fifth years, plus applicable HRA.