Education Minister Pokhriyal Inaugurates AICTE’s Faculty Development Programme

New Delhi: The ATAL faculty development programme (FDP) was launched by Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Monday, May 17.

The FDP is the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE)’s AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy, an initiative that inspires and trains faculty members from AICTE approved institutions.

The ATAL offers a faculty development programme under which training is provided in various core areas.

The Education Minister launched 15 FDPs developed by the AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) academy. The ATAL Academy has already held 185 offline FDPs in 2019-20 and 948 online FDPs in 2020-21.

It has also trained over 1 lakh faculty members throughout the country. The academy has planned to hold 971 programmes online, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021-22.

“The AICTE Training and Education Academy (Atal Academy) is an initiative that inspires and trains faculty members from AICTE approved institutions. It offers a unique faculty development program under which training is imparted in various core areas,” the Education Minister said on Twitter.

AICTE Chairman Professor Anil Sahasrabudhe, Vice-Chairman Professor MP Poonia, Member Secretary Professor Rajiv Kumar and Director, ATAL Academies, Dr RK Soni graced the event.

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