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Coupons will be distributed through the National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) site, using student information provided by institutes. It will also include artificial intelligence-based schools and non-technical higher education courses.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) today announced the launch of technical publications in regional languages as well as NEAT 3.0, a programme that would give 12 lakh ed-tech free course coupons to socially and economically disadvantaged students. NEAT 3.0 will also include artificial intelligence-based schools and other non-technical higher education courses (AI).
Students with annual family incomes of less than INR 8 lakh will be eligible for the 12-lakh free coupons. The NEAT site will be used to distribute these coupons. In January 2020, India's Ministry of Education unveiled NEAT, a public-private cooperation between the government and education technology businesses. The All India Council for Technical Education, which regulates technical education, is in charge of the effort (AICTE).
The AICTE is assisting quality institutes in launching regional language engineering programmes. This year, 90 institutes from ten states submitted applications to teach 26 engineering courses in six regional languages. As a result, technical literature in nine regional languages have been developed and translated. Using an AICTE AI-based translation tool, a team of interns lead by Buddha Chandrasekhar, chief coordinating officer, NEAT, AICTE, developed the volumes.
"Language is India's strength, and it is important for critical thinking," Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said at the inauguration of NEAT 3.0. I congratulate AICTE for introducing regional language engineering courses." He noted that the lack of courses in regional languages contributed to the high dropout rate in various engineering institutes.
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