AICTE, NHIDCL partner to provide internship programmes for UG, PG students

The agreement has been signed for a period of five years. AICTE will provide technical support for the internship platform, while NHIDCL will oversee programmatic and non-technical support for the programme.

The agreement was jointly signed by Nitin Sharma, executive director, NHIDCL and Dr Buddha Chandrasekhar, chief coordinating officer, AICTE (Image source: PIB)

The technical education regulator All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL), a CPSE under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways have signed an agreement to provide internship opportunities to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students.

The agreement was jointly signed by Nitin Sharma, executive director, NHIDCL and Dr Buddha Chandrasekhar, chief coordinating officer, AICTE.

Dr Krishan Kumar, managing director, NHIDCL launched an online portal for the internship programme. This programme is aimed at offering experiential learning opportunities to UG and PG students nationwide especially in the North-Eastern Region, UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The portal was inaugurated in the presence of officials from both NHIDCL and AICTE.

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The agreement has been signed for a period of five years and outlines the roles and responsibilities of AICTE and NHIDCL. AICTE will provide technical support for the platform, while NHIDCL will oversee programmatic and non-technical support for the programme.

“Both NHIDCL and AICTE, as premier National Organisations in their respective fields, are committed to working together as a team to achieve national objectives of skilling and providing opportunities to UG/ PG students in the country,” an official statement issued in this regard said.