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From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :

Prelims level: TULIP Program

Mains level: Not Much

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More than 25,000 internship opportunities have been advertised under the TULIP programme so far.

TULIP Program

TULIP is a portal jointly developed by the Ministry of HRD, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
It helps reap the benefits of India’s demographic dividend as it is poised to have the largest working-age population in the world in the coming years.
It helps enhance the value-to-market of India’s graduates and help create a potential talent pool in diverse fields like urban planning, transport engineering, environment, municipal finance etc.
It furthers the Government’s endeavors to boost community partnership and government-academia-industry-civil society linkages.

Why need such a program?

India has a substantial pool of technical graduates for whom exposure to real-world project implementation and planning is essential for professional development.
General education may not reflect the depth of productive knowledge present in society.
Instead of approaching education as ‘doing by learning,’ our societies need to reimagine education as ‘learning by doing.’