On Tuesday, CN Ashwath Narayan, the minister of higher education for Karnataka, announced that 14 government colleges and 30 engineering colleges in the state had been chosen for the Regional Ecosystem for Technical Excellence (RETE). In five years, he said, the RETE hopes to transform these select engineering colleges across the state into technical institutes of international calibre. After receiving the RETE report from the powerful committee led by Professor Karisiddappa, vice chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University, Narayan spoke with reporters.
According to the minister, the RETE will make it possible to offer the top-notch engineering education in every district in the state. “The RETE will take place at thirty colleges from across the state. These fall into the incubation, accelerator, and Super-30 categories, respectively. In areas without government colleges, private universities have been chosen “added he. According to the minister’s office, RETE will be implemented through a partnership between the government, business, and VTU.
