The MoU was signed between AICTE chairman Anil D. Sahasrabudhe and IPA national president Gurmit Singh Arora. Shutterstock
Engineering and Architecture institutions across India will soon offer courses in Plumbing. The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has signed a pact with the Indian Plumbing Association (IPA) to introduce the programme.
Students studying Engineering, Architecture, or Interior Designing, or graduates with a major degree in Civil, Environmental, or Mechanical engineering, Architecture, or Interior Designing will be able to take up the four-credit course in Plumbing (Water and Sanitation).
“There is a strong requirement of the Plumbing curriculum in Engineering and Architecture as plumbing leads to the health of a building. The IPA and the AICTE have collaborated to create a 50-hour Plumbing course that would be 80 per cent theory and 20 per cent practice,” AICTE chairman Anil D. Sahasrabudhe said.
The MoU was signed between Sahasrabudhe and IPA national president Gurmit Singh Arora.
IPA and AICTE have urged all educational institutions approved by the technical education regulator to provide a Plumbing (Water and Sanitation) programme to prepare students for their careers in the industry.
Through AICTE's faculty development programmes, IPA will train institutional faculty to administer the Plumbing course.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for the whole plumbing sector stakeholders since plumbing will become more organised and structured following this. One of IPA’s goals is to educate and instruct engineers, architects, and students in these fields on the characteristics of excellent and proper plumbing techniques,” Arora said.