The first important decision CM took after sitting in his new office

By our correspondent, Gandhinagar, 15 April 2013

In a first important decision after entering his new office building Swarnim Sankalp -1 in Gandhinagar today, Gujarat Chief Minister has decided to set up Gujarat Technical Education and Research Society.

This society will organize students oriented activities and will be responsible for admission process in B.E, BPharm, ME, MPharm, MBA, MCA and BArch etc courses.

A six-member governing body of GTERS will be headed by Gujarat’s Technical Education Commissioner. The new body will take up the training programmes for in-service engineers. The new body will also organize faculty development programme, and will hold internship and industrial training programmes for students.

GTERS will work for connection between educational institutes and industries. It will hold community development programme, skill development, vocational training and entrepreneurship development programmes. It will also handle the procedures for national and international level accreditation process for diploma, degree, PG courses.

Deputy Secretary of Technical Education will be member secretary of GTERS while Technical Education department’s Joint Commissioner will be Joint Chairman of this body.