More than 25,000 internship opportunities have been advertised under the TULIP program so far.
About
- TULIP is a portal developed collaboratively by the Ministry of HRD, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
- It contributes to reaping the benefits of India’s demographic dividend, as the country is on track to have the world’s largest working-age population in the coming years.
- It contributes to the increased marketability of Indian graduates and the development of a potential talent pool in fields such as urban planning, transportation engineering, the environment, municipal finance, and so on.
- It contributes to the government’s efforts to strengthen community partnerships and government-academia-industry-civil society ties.
Need for such a program
- India has a large number of technical graduates who need exposure to real-world project implementation and planning for professional development.
- General education may not accurately reflect the breadth of productive knowledge available in society.
- Rather than approaching education as “doing by learning,” our societies must reimagine education as “learning by doing.”
Source: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1885831