The government has completed all formalities to set up the CRISP sometime next month.

At the CRISP to be set up in the Government Polytechnic College in Gandhinagar, a team of technical experts from Gujarat as well as Germany will impart training to teachers of engineering and polytechnic colleges and technical personnel of industries of the State.

Gandhinagar is the third place in the country to get a centre, with Bhopal and Goa being the other two. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the centre in Gandhinagar was signed between officials of the CRISP and State Directorate of Technical Education here last week.

Sources in the Sachivalaya told Express Newsline on Tuesday that Germany, besides sending its experts to Gandhinagar to impart training to the teaching staff of engineering/polytechnic colleges, would provide necessary equipment to the centre. A committee headed by R Rambadran, Principal Secretary in the Higher and Technical Education, has been constituted to monitor the functioning of the centre.

The sources said D T Kapadia, Joint Secretary in the State Technical Education Department, would visit Bhopal next week to seek the help of CRISP officials in chalking out a comprehensive action plan for the Gandhinagar centre. An academic calendar for imparting training to technical teachers is being drawn up.

While the teaching staff of the government-run engineering and polytechnic colleges will be given training free-of-cost, the centre will charge fees from participants of private industries. The CRISP will offer short-term as well as long-term courses in various technical areas such as information technology, robotics, hydraulic controls, pneumatic controls, maintenance of electric and electronic instruments and programmable logic controllers.

The centre will not only help improve the technical teachers' performance, but also lead to increased productivity and provide a major boost to the industrial development in the State. Besides, the teachers' training at the centre would help improve the learning standards of students studying in polytechnic and engineering colleges in the State.

Under the CRISP project, outstanding technical teachers will be sent to Germany to update their technical knowledge there. The centre will also help Gujarat to prepare a project proposal to train the physically handicapped persons in technical areas.