NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) has been offering self-study courses across engineering, humanities and science streams for more than a decade. These are available at: https://nptel.ac.in. From March 2014 NPTEL has been offering online certification for its courses, the highlight being the certification exam through which the student gets an opportunity to earn a certificate form the IITs! These are available at: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
To take this initiative forward and to encourage more students of Rajkiya Engineering College Banda to participate in this initiative, Director, Rajkiya Engineering College Banda inspired for setting up NPTEL Local Chapter in the college under the NPTEL Nodal centre at IIT Kanpur in Feb. 2018. This local chapter is led by a faculty member of the college, who is single Point of Contact (SPOC) to NPTEL centre at IITK. The aim of this local chapter is to uplift the knowledge/ expertise level of students and faculty members to national/ international level.