The paper attempts to explain the Government of India's initiative to provide opportunities for continuing engineering education to the working professionals through the Continuing Engineering Education Project. It briefly outlines the progress made in the last two years in this endeavor. The new challenges posed by the invasion of the emerging technologies and consequent need of keeping oneself abreast of the developments have been clearly brought out. The paper subsequerently proposes suitable measures taken in the Eighth Plan to meet these allenges.
