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:

  1. Improving credit availability to small and marginal farmers.
  2. Reducing debt to deposit ratio in public sector Banks.
  3. Improving vehicle sales in India.
  4. Providing internship opportunities to youth

Answer to Prelims question