Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Education
Context
The India Design Council (IDC) has launched two new Initiatives to promote Design Education and Standards namely the Chartered Designs of India (CDI) and the Design Education Quality Mark (DEQM).
All about
- These two initiatives of IDC and National Institute of design, Ahmedabad will help to address the 5 challenges of scale, quality of design, quality of education for design, raising the priority for design in industry and design for public purpose.
- The DEQM will benchmark design education programmes on predetermined standards and will accord Design Education Quality Mark to institutions that meet the provisions of the published standard.
- CDI is envisaged as an institution that will establish and uphold the professional standards of design practice in India.
India Design Council (IDC)
- India Design Council (IDC) is an autonomous body of the Government of India established under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
- It is a national strategic body for multi-disciplinary design and is involved in promotion of design to make India a design
enabled country. It is mandated to implement the National Design Policy (NDP) adopted in 2007.