All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
AICTE is the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development. They are organizers for Smart India Hackathon 2017 and have identified 16 problem statements for this initiative.
15 Problem Statement Submission Date: 09 NOV 2016 - 15 DEC 2016
#AIC01
Prediction of Admission & Jobs in Engineering & Technology /Management/Pharmacy with respect to demographic locations
AICTE grants approval for establishment of new technical institutions and starting of new courses in the field of Engineering and Technology, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture etc. At present the criteria for grant of approval for such courses is based mainly on infrastructure available as per the minimum norms prescribed by AICTE (Approval Process Handbook). However due to lack of information on employment potential for the proposed courses AICTE is giving approval and the students pass out from such Institutions/Branches of Engineering/Management/Pharmacy etc remain unemployed. At present, there is no mechanism available to find out how to estimate/forecast employment potential for any branch(s)/course(s) in Engineering/Management/Pharmacy etc on short term and long term basis by correlating data from various sources and formulating computer program/application using neural networks OR any other programming tools.
Development of Application Software to estimate/forecast employment potential of Graduates/Post Graduates in different branches/courses on short term and long term basis by correlating data from various sources could be useful for granting approval along with infrastructure and other facilities.
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#AIC02
Standard Course Curriculum Design for all the Universities across India
AICTE approved courses in the field of Engineering and Technology, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture etc are affiliated to different Universities and are conducted as per the syllabus prescribed by these Universities. There are more than 100 such universities in the Country affiliating the same course(s). However, the structure of the course, content and scheme of the course differs widely from University to University, resulting in variation in the academic standards of the same degree approved by AICTE at the time of admission to higher studies and employment in India and abroad. Therefore there is a need to develop an application to map structure, content and scheme of the courses at present run by affiliated Universities and map important features and compare with a standard curriculum of highest standard. This would help AICTE to develop and enforce uniform academic standards all over the country for all its approved Courses.
Development of Application software to map structure, content and scheme of the courses run by affiliating Universities (with mapping of important features) and compare with a standard curriculum could be useful to develop and enforce uniform academic standards all over the country for all its approved Courses.
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#AIC03
One Point Student/Faculty Details Verification through Functional Application Software
AICTE data base has information about Faculties and students of AICTE Approved Institutions including Aadhaar, PAN and Bank Details. Aadhaar & Aadhaar Seeded Bank Account Details are maintained by UID & NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India). Currently there is no common facility that exists to verify the Aadhaar, Aadhaar Seeded Bank Account Details from UID & NPCI and PAN.
Availability of such an functional application software for automating the process of collating the information on Aadhaar, Aadhaar Seeded Bank Account Details and or PAN received from faculties/students for verifying these details from UID & NPCI. As such, the availability of functional application software will be extremely useful.
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#AIC04
One Point Student Verification through Mobile Application
Statement: The working model should provide integration between National Academic Depositary, Digital Locker & Instant Aadhaar (Aadhaar Portal). This App will provide the link between Aadhaar Number & Roll Number and the students should update the data of “Aadhaar Number” along with “Roll Number” on National Academic Depositary (It is like Linking roll. no. with Aadhaar No.). This will help in Verification of AICTE Approved Institutes, Verification of Students and Message service for students like job alert etc.
Availability of such an Application would be useful (Design and Development) for Integration of Biometric details (Aadhaar instant App.) and Digital locker information (digilocker App.)/National Academic Depository (MHRD) of students record on a single mobile App.
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#AIC05
Attractive website design with innovative ideas for AICTE
AICTE website consists of lot of information on approved institutions, different schemes of the Government, Rules and Regulations, etc., related to Engineering and Technology, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture, Arts and Crafts. By using latest web designing tools with latest innovative ideas the present website of AICTE may be made very attractive and user friendly.
Organization will look for attractive website design with latest innovative ideas covering all activities of AICTE with user friendly concept.
Sample Data Required: Yes (Ref: www.aicte-india.org)
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#AIC06
Attractive Mobile App for AICTE providing information on activities
AICTE website consists of lot of information on approved institutions, different schemes of the Government, Rules and Regulations, etc., related to Engineering and Technology, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture, Arts and Crafts. By using latest Innovative Ideas, Mobile App may be developed for providing some of the important/frequently required useful information like, approved & unapproved institutions, etc., which are presently displayed under Statistics (Dashboard).
Organization will look for attractive Mobile App developed with latest innovative ideas to display/provide information on some of the important activities of AICTE with user friendly concept.
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www.aicte-india.org & Statistics > Dash board)
#AIC07
Interlinking of School education, Higher education and Technical education at all levels throughout the country.
As on today in our country we are not having any master data base regarding students at various levels, without which framing policies with regard to education and upliftment of student community will be difficult.
Provision of common platform in which the entire data base of school education, higher education and technical education are interlinked, which will help the government to identify the grey areas where actual concentration is needed. Further, the percentage of students entering various fields of education and percentage of student drop outs also can be identified and also State/District wise drop outs can be identified and thereby these places can be targeted for improvement.
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#AIC08
Interlinking of Campus placement in Technical institutes/Higher Educational Institutes and Universities throughout the country.
As on today, in our country we are not having any master data base regarding campus placement in technical institute and Universities throughout the country. By mapping the entire placement details throughout the county, the percentage of un-employability can be identified in various fields of education. This will help the policy makers to come out with appropriate solution through framing of policies for tackling the unemployability in the country.
Provision of common platform in which the entire data base of campus placement of all technical institutes/ Universities throughout the country by interlinking it will be extremely useful for the Government/Policy makers to come out with appropriate solutions.
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#AIC09
Knowledge platform for sharing the project works taken up by the students in Technical/Higher Educational Institutes and Universities throughout the country.
Many good initiatives by students in the form of project is presently going un-noticed because of lack of awareness. If a common knowledge platform (with a facility for plagiarism) is created to bring all project works taken up at various levels by the students in Technical / Higher Educational Institutes and Universities throughout the country , then it will be a great source of knowledge and also will help the student community to take up unique/innovative project works.
Provision of Knowledge platform in which the entire data base of all the projects taken up by all Technical/Higher Educational Institutes/ Universities throughout the country by interlinking will be extremely useful.
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#AIC10
Single National Academic Calendar for Universities is wanted
Exercising the autonomy status each University or College are following their own time tables and annual academic calendars. Students of those Institutions who complete their examinations and get results early have the opportunity to select the course of their choice and move to the University of choice while those whose results are declared late have no (Or) less options of courses and colleges available for them. Students also have to travel to each of these colleges to get information, apply and get admitted and so on. This results in huge cost and loss of time to students in their academic career.
In order to provide level playing grounds for all the students there is a need for effective implementation of a common uniform calendar in all the colleges and Universities across the Nation.
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#AIC11
Open Data of Universities is lacking.
Pan-university data bank is required for accessing course details, comparison of courses, facilities and faculty, admission, tracking student mobility, viewing results, evaluation and certification, verification of certificates, joint online courses (MOOCs). This will help both student and faculty communities for self improvement through comparison and emulations. Lack of information is leading to self glorification and inbreeding among University and College student and faculty members.
In order to provide level playing grounds for all the students and faculties, there is a need for Pan-University data bank.
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#AIC12
Lack of information on Public research sources and availability, cost, etc.
There are many Governmental and Non-Governmental sources of grants for undertaking research in Colleges and Universities. Lack of information in one platform about the institution granting funds, criteria of selection, norms and stipulations, time period, purpose for which grants are available, last date, eligibility criteria for all the grants available at International, National levels and local and subject-wise details, is inhibiting several potential researchers from availing the grants for undertaking research projects.
Provision of such a platform would be useful in enabling healthy competition among researchers and also for the best utilisation of funds for research programs.
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#AIC13
Lack of information about Academic Activities in single platform
Teachers, students are encouraged to take up research and innovate. Current accreditation, ranking and grading norms emphasises research work and publications by both students and faculty. In order to take up research work and subsequently make publications of research findings, to collaborate and network with others who are working on similar problems there is a need to participate in global, national and local workshops, seminars, symposia, conferences, etc. Students have to search for information about dates, places and themes of such academic confluences. Lot of time and efforts are wasted in this regard and despite that they may miss out vital information and chance to make presentations.
Availability of single portal will be extremely useful for obtaining the information about all academic activities across the country, universities and international arena in chronological order and in subject areas so as to enable the students, faculty, and researchers to access information and prepare well in advance and participate effectively and successfully
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#AIC14
Career dendrogram
In order to realise the goal of demographic divide, every citizen of the country needs to be educated for job, be it a scientist, a doctor, engineer or whatever to meet not only the needs of our society but also the other societies elsewhere in the world. Every student aspires to become a great person and self reliant, but their passion and likings are diverse. In order to cater to the aspirations of the students and facilitate them to aim it high, they are required to be informed about the number and type of jobs this country has in the future years, as also the number of business persons, entrepreneurs, workforce in all areas of employment. A national database of actual requirement of workforce, category-wise by both Government and Industry, the type of educational or skill qualification required, nature of job, eligibility criteria, salary and perks, career development /progression in every field / sector of employment is urgently required.
As each individual nurtures different desires to become in their life, there is a need for career dendrogram, so that one can put forth a concerted efforts to become the best in his vocation and excel in life rather than make umpteen number of mistakes of wrong selection of course of education or career and repent later and go on trying different things losing his precious time/life.
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#AIC15
Lack of sustainability in appointment of Faculty in Higher Educational Institutions/Colleges
Retirement of faculties and appointment of faculties in colleges is not standardised in our country. While retirements are mandatory on superannuation, steps to fill up the vacancy that arises immediately is lacking. When a vacancy arises in the middle of the academic year on account of the superannuation of a faculty, the students are the victims. There should be state or National registry or databank to assess the actual faculty requirement college-wise keeping in view the date of retirement and number of teachers who retire, so that recruitment process can start well in advance and the faculty is readily available as soon as a faculty retires. Standard of education in India cannot be improved unless we fill all the vacancies every year selecting suitable candidates.
To do the right kind of planning, we need to have App which will indicate the future vacancies and positions so that proper planning of recruitment is possible.
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