The All Indian Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has tweaked the eligibility criteria for undergraduate engineering programmes, permitting higher education institutions to admit students who have not studied Physics and Mathematics in school to streams such as textile engineering and biotechnology
After a lot of protests over this, AICTE issued this clarification.
What continues to baffle me is the very existance of undergrad level specialized engineering courses for, say, agricultural equipment. From engineering POV, what specialized skill would be needed in these engineers that normal mechanical engineers or instrumentation engineers normally don’t get?