Working on a start-up while completing your engineering degree? Thanks to a new start-up policy designed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) specifically for engineering and technology colleges, your college will go easy on your attendance. In addition, institutes will also be asked to give academic credits and allow breaks of one semester or a year to students working on start-ups.

The development heralds a major change in the focus of the AICTE — encouraging students to become job-givers instead of seekers. Such policies have already shown positive results among premier institutes such as the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs). This is the first time that such a policy has been designed for all engineering colleges.