The All India Council for Technical Education, AICTE will soon launch an academic networking site, along with an in-house job portal and a repository of doctorate papers to check duplication and cheating in research papers. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, the Chairman of AICTE, S S Mantha said the networking site proposes to interconnect over 7 million students enrolled across AICTE-approved institutions. He said the move aims to encourage academic networking and help with course material, share charts, diagrams and projects that can aid learning.
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Mr. Mantha said it will also help to check large-scale cheating that are seen in a number of research papers. He said the central database will link up with an industry database of eight thousand stakeholders and help to facilitate the placement process.