ATBWT
What this is
AICTE-Technical Book Writing & Translation scheme has been launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to promote the use of 'Scheduled Regional Language' in Technical Education for creating knowledge base in local language.
In detail
AICTE-Technical Book Writing & Translation scheme has been launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to promote the use of 'Scheduled Regional Language' in Technical Education for creating knowledge base in local language and to encourage creation of treasure of latest technical knowledge incorporating the newest developments by grant of financial support to the distinguished faculty/writers/translators.
> Objectives:
To encourage, promote and support maximum number of writers to write and publish the technical subject books in Indian scheduled regional language including Hindi.
> List of (12) Scheduled Regional Languages included in Technical Book Writing Scheme of AICTE:
- Hindi.
- Assamese.
- Bengali.
- Gujarati.
- Kannada.
- Malayalam.
- Marathi.
- Odia.
- Punjabi.
- Tamil.
- Telugu.
- Urdu.
Who qualifies
- The Faculty- retired or working in AICTE approved institutions (Degree/Diploma/Pharmacy/Management/Architecture etc.) or researchers of suchinstitutions.
- The proposed author(s) to be of reputed with command over the subject and the language chosen for writing.
- The proposed author(s) should have a proven academic record of brilliance.
- The proposed author(s) should have been recognized in the similar nature work earlier.
What you get
Maximum funding for translation work and for original Technical Book Writing (Funding will be shared in case of multiple authors) shall be limited to :
- Original book writer for UG : ₹ 2,00,000/-1. Original book writer for Diploma : ₹ 1,50,000/-1. Reviewer for UG: ₹ 40,000/-1. Reviewer for Diploma: ₹ 30,000/-1. Translator for UG & Diploma: ₹ 1,00,000/-1. Reviewer of translated books in regional languages for UG & Diploma: ₹ 20,000/- (In case of an author & co-author for one book, the amount will be split between the both).
not about the scheme.
Provenance
| schemeName | AICTE-Technical Book Writing & Translation Scheme | myScheme · 2026-09-02 |
| schemeOpenDate | ... | not published at source |
| schemeCloseDate | ... | not published at source |
| nodalMinistryName | Ministry of Education | myScheme · 2026-09-02 |
| dbtScheme | False | myScheme · 2026-09-02 |
| achievement data | ... | no source publishes this for any central scheme |