The Urban Learning Internship Programme (TULIP)
2020 JUN 5
Preliminary >
Social Justice > Human Resources > Skill Development
IN NEWS:
- Union human resource development ministry and housing and urban affairs ministry have jointly inaugurated The Urban Learning Internship Programme (TULIP) recently.
ABOUT TULIP:
- It will provide internship opportunities to thousands of fresh graduates and engineers of the county under the ‘Smart City’ projects.
- The TULIP portal has been developed by AICTE.
- Under the internship programme students will get to work for 100 smart cities under ministry of housing and urban development.
- According to the TULIP portal, there are a total of 295,200 internships under 23,970 companies.
- TULIP interns would get exposure in a large number of areas including but not limited to urban planning, urban design, different branches of engineering, information and technology, mobility, finance, social sector issues and environmental issues.
PRELIMS QUESTION:
Q. Tulip portal recently in news is aimed at:
- Improving credit availability to small and marginal farmers.
- Reducing debt to deposit ratio in public sector Banks.
- Improving vehicle sales in India.
- Providing internship opportunities to youth
Answer to Prelims question