AICTE- TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY JOINT TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS(TUJTPFT)

Overview

About TUJTPFT

The form AICTE publishes against this scheme runs to 9 numbered fields, and every one of them asks about a technical university: its name, its coordinating officer or registrar, how many AICTE approved institutes are affiliated to it, and what faculty development programmes it has already organised (application form). There is no field on it for a teacher's name, a department or a college. The university is the applicant, the grant is sanctioned in its favour, and the teachers the scheme exists for arrive afterwards as participants drawn from the colleges affiliated to that same university (scheme document and guidelines). One thing sits above all of it. On AICTE's Staff Development Schemes page the scheme's title carries a bracketed qualifier, Scheme on hold in 2022-23, and that qualifier was still attached when the page was read on 7 September 2026 (Staff Development Schemes).

The word joint carries the design. This is not money a college wins for one event: it is a standing arrangement between AICTE and one named state technical university, executed at New Delhi as a memorandum of understanding, with AICTE signing through its Chairman and the university through whichever officer it deputes, a Vice Chancellor in most of the published copies, the Registrar in charge at Gujarat Technological University, a professor at Bikaner and at Kota. Eight such agreements sit on AICTE's own site, and they name real partners: Gujarat Technological University in Ahmedabad (MoU with Gujarat Technological University), Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya in Bhopal (MoU with Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya), I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University at Kapurthala (MoU with I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University), Bikaner Technical University (MoU with Bikaner Technical University), Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University at Bhatinda (MoU with Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University), Rajasthan Technical University at Rawat Bhata Road in Kota (MoU with Rajasthan Technical University), Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University in Bhilai (MoU with Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University) and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University on Sitapur Road in Lucknow (MoU with Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University). Each recites the same purpose, joint training programs for teachers in AICTE's approved technical institutions affiliated with that University.

What follows a signature is a series rather than a single event. The university shall conduct 10 such training programs in a financial year, each of six days and residential, each with a minimum of forty participants, and each covering at least one of the subjects the university itself runs, listed as Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Physics and Chemistry among others. A minimum of one session of 3 hours in each programme is set aside for moral values, ethics, behavioural sciences and attitude, and AICTE names nine preferred themes for the rest, including examination reforms, cognitive skills and design thinking, NBA accreditation and its processes, the model curriculum AICTE prescribes, and mentor's training as per the norms of NITTT (scheme document and guidelines).

The reach of the scheme is therefore set by affiliation and not by geography, which is what makes the choice of partner the whole story for a teacher. A lecturer in an AICTE approved college affiliated to Bikaner Technical University is inside the scheme; a lecturer in the identical college one state over, affiliated to a university that never signed, is outside it, and no amount of AICTE approval changes that.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

There is no national window to miss. The opening and closing date fields on the myScheme record are empty because the dates that matter are set by whichever partner university advertises a programme on its own portal, and they move with each advertisement.

Two deadlines are fixed inside the scheme rather than announced outside it: the allowance of ten programmes runs on the financial year, and the yearly report, expenditure statement and utilisation certificate are due within a month after the end of each financial year. The vintages are worth carrying alongside them. The scheme document and guidelines are dated July 2020, the partner agreements AICTE has published were all signed before that, and the hold marking on the Staff Development Schemes page is written for 2022-23 (Staff Development Schemes).

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The scheme has one gate for the institution and one for the person, and only the first decides whether a programme can exist at all. The institutional gate is the MoU: a university outside that set has no instrument to conduct a programme under, because the guidelines require the programme to be run strictly in accordance with the provisions of the scheme and the MoU related to it. The university also has to be able to house the people it trains, since a residential programme obliges it to hold the requisite infrastructure, named in the guidelines as a guest house and a dining hall (scheme document and guidelines).

The personal gate is broader than the myScheme summary makes it look. myScheme records the eligible party as the AICTE approved institutions affiliated with the partner university; the guidelines admit all teachers from AICTE approved institutions affiliated with the partner university, and no clause narrows that to a discipline, a designation or a length of service. The form, meanwhile, is judging the university and not the teacher: its count of affiliated AICTE approved institutes, its record of faculty development programmes organised to date, whether any of them ran in collaboration with AICTE, the resource persons it has used before, and the number of qualified experts on its panel (application form).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

A teacher whose college is affiliated to a university that never signed the MoU has no route in at all, and the guidelines create none: they contain no provision for AICTE to fund a programme without a partner university, and no provision for an unaffiliated institution to be admitted to one. Two further bars sit inside the money rather than in any list. Honorarium to resource persons cannot exceed 20% of the total expenditure incurred on one such programme, and honorarium to the programme coordinator cannot exceed 1% of it, so a budget that pays its speakers or its coordinator generously is outside the terms whatever else it does (scheme document and guidelines).

Certification carries the fourth bar, and it is the only one that falls on an individual. The university has to ensure that certificates are issued only to those participants who qualify the test necessarily conducted at the end, so attendance alone leaves a teacher with nothing to file. None of the four is presented as an exclusion anywhere. AICTE publishes no list of ineligible categories for this scheme and the exclusions field on the myScheme record is blank, which is why the bars above are quoted out of the fund limits clause, the eligibility clause and the university's certification duty instead.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

What renews here is the agreement rather than an award. Each published MoU is effective up to a maximum of five years from the date of signing, and its continuance is subject to an annual review of the scheme and the deliverables, so the partnership is re-earned each year against what the university actually delivered (MoU with Gujarat Technological University).

The programme allowance resets on the same clock. Ten programmes are permitted in a financial year, and the university's yearly report, detailed statement of expenditure and utilisation certificate for the sanctioned grants fall due within a month after the end of each financial year, audited by a certified chartered accountant firm (scheme document and guidelines). A university that lets that filing slip is asking for the next year's review with an open account behind it.

What you get

Award & benefits

The ceiling is Rs 3 lakh for one training programme, and unusually for an AICTE grant, only half of it is AICTE's money. AICTE releases Rs 1.5 lakh per programme, or the actual expenditure if that is less; the technical university meets expenditure to the extent of Rs 1.5 lakh from its own funds. The two halves are not interchangeable, because the scheme document assigns three named heads to each side.

When AICTE hands over its half is the part worth planning around. The published agreements put a condition inside the Council's own list of obligations: AICTE shall release its contribution towards the expenditure for the conduct of such training programs only on receipt of the documents from the university, which are the closure pack and the utilisation certificate (MoU with Gujarat Technological University, MoU with Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University). The university therefore carries the programme on its own cash first and is reimbursed against paperwork, which is the reverse of a training grant paid out as an advance.

What a participant gets is not a payment. Boarding and lodging, outstation travel and course material are budgeted heads paid through the university, and the thing a teacher leaves with is a certificate issued jointly by the university and AICTE, awarded only on qualifying the closing test. On whether a university may collect a registration fee from participants the published guidelines say nothing either way, so that question has no answer in the scheme papers and belongs to the university running the programme.

• The maximum total expenditure for conduct of one training program will be ₹ 3,000,00/- only to be equally shared by AICTE and the university.
•  AICTE: Will release a grant of ₹ 1,50,000/- to Technical university for the training program to meet the expenditure or the actual expenditure, whichever is less on (i) TA/DA/ Honorarium to Resource Persons (Honorarium not to exceed 20% of the total expenditure incurred on conduct of one such training program), (ii) TA to outstation participants and (iii) Course material to participants.
•  Technical university: Will meet from its own funds, the expenditure to the extent of ₹ 1,50,000/- or the actual expenditure, whichever is less, to cover all items of expenditure such as (i) Boarding & lodging of participants, (ii) Honorarium to Program Coordinator (not to exceed 1% of the total expenditure incurred on one such training program) and (iii) Working expenses (tea/coffee/stationary/certificate/printing etc.).

What to prepare

Documents required

The closure pack is the familiar part, and the myScheme record already prints it: a schedule, a resource person list with contact details and topics, an attendance list, the question paper with the mark sheet from the closing test, and at least five photographs with a video recording of selected sessions. What that list leaves out is the accounting file, and the accounting file is where sanctions actually stall.

AICTE publishes a fixed format for it rather than leaving the university to draft one (format for statement of expenditure). The statement of expenditure is a grid of seven expenditure heads carrying two money columns side by side, one for the amount incurred against the AICTE share and one for the amount against the university share, together with the AICTE file number, the sanction number and date, the participant count and the programme dates. The utilisation certificate is filed separately for each sanction order, for the financial year, and states how much of the grant was utilised and how much remained unutilised at the end of the year.

Signatures are prescribed by institution type. The coordinator and the head of institution sign with seals; at a government or government aided institute the finance officer, auditor or accounts officer signs as well; and where a chartered accountant certifies, the form leaves space for a membership number, a rubber stamp and a full postal address. A feedback form travels with them as Annexure I, and two of its questions are worth reading before the programme rather than after: it asks for any grant received from agencies other than AICTE for the same programme, and for details of internal revenue generated by the institution or department on account of it. Its item 15 requires the detailed study material or proceedings to reach the Council in both soft and hard copy (format for statement of expenditure).

Step by step

How to apply

There are two applications here, filed by different people at different times, and conflating them is the usual mistake. The university applies first, by uploading its details to AICTE on the published nine field form (application form). Only after a sanction does the second application open, and that one belongs to teachers: an appropriate advertisement is placed by AICTE and the university together, and applications are invited online on the university web portal with a link on AICTE's website (scheme document and guidelines).

That design also settles how a proposal is tracked, and the answer is that AICTE gives no way to track one. The scheme's row on the Staff Development Schemes page publishes the scheme document, the MoU link, the application form and the statement of expenditure format, and it carries neither an apply link nor a user manual, unlike several rows around it that carry both (Staff Development Schemes). No portal login, application number or status screen exists on AICTE's side to open. The identifiers that do exist appear later, on the closure formats, where the AICTE file number and the sanction order number with its date are the reference a university quotes for anything to do with the grant (format for statement of expenditure). A teacher chasing a seat is chasing the university's coordinating officer or registrar, who is field 2 of the university's own form.

How winners are picked

Selection process

There is no scoring rule to report. What AICTE publishes for this scheme is the evidence a university has to put on the table, and all of it is about capacity: the count of AICTE approved institutes affiliated to it, its total of faculty development programmes organised to date, whether any ran with AICTE, the resource persons it has already used, and the qualified experts on its panel (application form). No marks scheme, committee composition or weightage is attached to any of it, so nothing here should be read as one.

A monitoring duty stands in for the selection panel this scheme never describes. The university constitutes a Project Monitoring Committee for effective implementation and AICTE provides its representative as a member of that committee, and AICTE separately undertakes to conduct surprise visits to some institutes while a programme is in progress (scheme document and guidelines).

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Accountability sits with the university and it is written broadly. The university is accountable for the finance and grants sanctioned under the scheme and abides by the terms AICTE stipulates for financial grants; its accounts are open to inspection by AICTE officials and to audit by the statutory auditors; and it acts as the facilitator for the operation of the programme (scheme document and guidelines).

The agreements add a legal frame the guidelines leave out, and it is not word for word the same in each of them. A dispute is routed identically wherever it appears: negotiation between the parties' representatives first, then the Chairman of AICTE and the Vice Chancellor or Registrar of the university, and only then an arbitrator appointed with the consent of both, seated at New Delhi, under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (MoU with Gujarat Technological University). A governing court line is not general, though. The agreements with Gujarat Technological University and Rajasthan Technical University state that the MoU is enforceable within the jurisdiction of Delhi courts only, while the ones with Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University close the validity clause without that sentence (MoU with Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University). Which version a university signed is a question only its own copy answers.

One clause sits outside the balance the rest of the agreement strikes, and it is set in bold where it appears. AICTE, in its sole discretion and by giving prior notice of one month to the other party, may terminate the agreement without assigning any reason (MoU with Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University). Against a five year term reviewed annually, that is the clause a university plans a multi year training calendar around.

Get help

Contact

Every contact this scheme names belongs to the university. Field 2 of the application form is the name of the coordinating officer or registrar, and field 3 is the university's contact number and address (application form). AICTE's own row for the scheme lists four documents and nothing else: no officer, no desk, no email address and no telephone number (Staff Development Schemes).

That is a workable route rather than a gap, given how the scheme runs. Both the advertisement and the participant applications live on the partner university's portal, so a teacher's questions about dates, seats and certificates have an addressee, and it is not New Delhi.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

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