IITs bag 11 of 15 AICTE Indian Knowledge Systems projects

AICTE received 156 research proposals for nine focus areas; selected proposals will get Rs10 lakh for two years.

The Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Division of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has received 156 proposals for its research project, and out of 156 applications received selected 15 projects proposals in six focus areas.

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have bagged 11 out of 15 projects approved by the AICTE. Among universities, two proposals of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been approved. Almost one-third of the applications received were for Science, Engineering, Technology, and only four were selected.

Among others, four were selected for Linguistics, Phonetics, Epistemology, Language Technology, three for Indian Traditional Knowledge Base, two for Arts, Literature, Culture, Aesthetics Folklore, Education, and one each for Management, Administration, Law, Governance, and Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy.

The IKS Division of Ministry of Education at AICTE has been established with a vision to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on all aspects of IKS update and disseminate IKS knowledge for further innovations and societal applications. The idea behind starting IKS Division is to initiate a process of training generations of scholars who will show the ‘Indian way’.

Commenting on the program, Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE, said: “The main objective of this Research Project is to promote research in the field of IKS at various levels by providing opportunities to scholars in research projects on the themes of their choice and among the major areas of investigation identified by the IKS or in the IKS’s own projects and related disciplines. The objective of this is to create and update the general research capabilities of the faculty members in IKS of various institutes in the country. We were overwhelmed with the number of applications and after a meticulous scrutiny process, 15 were selected.”

The AICTE has approved the highest number of proposals of IIT Kanpur and IIT-BHU with three from each of these institutions, while two proposals from IIT Roorkee, University of Hyderabad and IIT Bombay has got the approval. It has also approved one proposal each from IIT Dharwad, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences (CAU-Imphal), and the Central University of South Bihar.

Research and development activities in IKS is an essential component of the education system since it creates new knowledge and insight and imparts excitement and dynamism in NEP2020, as well as making them need-based in view of the national requirements.

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