A great need was being felt for a product which could give a snapshot information about the UPTU affiliated Colleges for the prospective students seeking admissions in the various Engineering-Management-Pharmacy Courses. This maiden attempt is the humble hard work by a dedicated team which envisions to empower the techno-managerial students from the state of Uttar Pradesh to stand apart and create an exclusive identity for themselves through their sheer merit.

UPTU WATCH Employability Initiative to help UPTUians become a preferred choice of employers and outreaching the brand UP to the corporate world, who generally shy away from UP due to its negative positioning,Under the ageis of UPTU WATCH Employability Initiative, the dipstick study was conducted with due support from MeritTrac - India’s largest skill assessment company. "The observations of that study states that The Engineering Talent Pool of Uttar Pradesh is Significantly better than the National Average"
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Synergizing Techno-Managerial Education with Developmental Needs. CRITICIZE, CONDEMN, RETREAT or BECOME a PARTNER in the developmental process. Development is a multi-faceted effort and needs the positive participation of one and all. The onus for accentuating the same certainly lies on the Political Leadership of the day. An enabling eco-system for development just cannot be established over a short period of time. It required the UPTU over a decade to develop a talented human resource pool which has the confidence & competency to compete with anyone and everyone in the country out of its sheer merit and capabilities.

Acknowledging the role of educational entrepreneurs. It has somehow become the national dharma of the mainstream intelligentsia to criticize, condemn and rebuke rather than to acknowledge the meaningful contributions and suggest course corrections if any. The traditional wisdom which said, “Knowledge broods humility” has unfortunately been replaced by the one which says that “Knowledge builds up arrogance”. UPTU WATCH has taken a call on this vital issue and has decided to take the balanced approach of heartily acknowledging the contribution of the educational entrepreneurs of Uttar Pradesh who have played a phenomenal role in making the techno-managerial education in UP accessible to anyone and everyone. It’s therefore publishing the bio-graphic profiles of these Edupreneurs of Uttar Pradesh in the form of a book which would be educating the masses at large about their contributions, thinking process and futuristic visions.

Majority of the UPTU Colleges don’t have an efficient email system in place UPTUMAIL intends to provide a digital identity to every stakeholder of the UPTU system - Central Regulators, College Management, Faculty Members, Students and Alumni. On similar lines an exclusive SMS service for the UPTU Fraternity is also being developed which would be released shortly.

Enhancing the Quality of Techno-Managerial Education Using Information & Communication Technology. Digital Learning tools are an enabler.UPTU WATCH Digital Learning Initiative is a drive to promote the teaching & learning of techno-managerial courses using the power of ICT with optimal investments having immense returns. Under this initiative, efforts would be made to plug in the gaps between the existing educational infrastructure for the optimal e-enablement of colleges.

UPTU WATCH Entrepreneurship Initiative is an effort towards generating the requisite activation energy for the splurge of entrepreneurship activities in the techno-managerial universities of Uttar Pradesh. It would inform and educate about the various schemes and programmes available for the development of entrepreneurship, would report the gaps & shortcomings in these schemes & programmes to the designers & implementers and would acknowledge & promote the entrepreneurial ideas of the budding techno-managers at large. Entrepreneurship Clubs would be established in individual colleges and an entrepreneurial network would be created for the exchange of ideas, resources and knowledge.