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7. It is the case of the petitioner and so contended by Mr. Jayant Mehta, that the success of these projects encouraged the Government of India and the State Governments to seek more funding from the World Bank for systemic transformation of the Technical Education system with focus on Degree level Engineering Education. In 2002-03, the Government of India with financial assistance from the World Bank launched a "Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP)" as a long-term programme, to be implemented in three phases for systemic transformation of the Technical Education System.

8. He submits that the first phase of TEQIP commenced in March 2003 and ended in March, 2009, benefitting 127 institutions in 13 States. This project covered less than 10% of the institutions that existed then. The second phase of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP-II) commenced in 2009 and lasted till March 2017. The programme was designed to meet the following objectives:

5. Enhancing Institutional and System Management effectiveness
6. Capacity Building to Strengthen Management.

9. Thereafter, the Government of India took up the challenge of next phase, which was third phase of Technical Education Quality Improvement programme (referred to as TEQIP-III) which is fully integrated with the Twelfth Five-year plan objectives for Technical Education as a key component for improving the quality of Engineering Education in existing institutions with a special consideration for Low Income States and Special Category States and support to strengthen few affiliated technical universities to improve their policy, academic and management practices. This is where the induction of these petitioner(s) take place.