GLUE GRANT SCHEME: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 27 October 2021

GLUE GRANT SCHEME

• Under the glue grant, announced in this year’s budget, institutions in the same city would be encouraged to share resources, equipment and even allow their students to take classes from each other.
• This is the first step for multidisciplinary.
• We intend to start this from the second semester of the current academic year.
• Ultimately, faculty will be able to design joint courses.
• This also meant that institutions need not duplicate work by developing the same capacities, but would able to build on each other’s expertise.