New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasized adapting higher and technical education with environmental changes and challenges emerged and requested centrally funded technical institutions to rediscover themselves and develop innovative models to meet future needs.
Interacting with more than 100 institutional heads through video conferencing, PM calls for building technology education ecosystems in Indian and translating global journals into regional languages.
Modi described the education sector as a social investment, and confirmed that “access, affordability, equity, and quality” must encourage higher education, focusing on young people, women and those who are forbidden.
The Union Minister for Education and Development of Dharmendra Pradhan’s skills, Minister of State AnnPurna Devi, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh and Sarkar Subhas were also present during the interaction.
Modi noted that ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ will form the basis of Indian dreams and aspirations in the next 25 years when the country celebrates 100 years of independence and technology institutions and R & D will play a major role in the coming decade, he added, is also referred to as “Techade India” , He praised the research and development of work carried out by these institutions to meet the challenges posed by Covid-19 and appreciated the efforts of young innovators to provide fast technology solutions.
In post-interaction tweets, Modi said: “Having an interaction that enriches with leading IIT directors and @iiscbangalore where we exchange ideas on various subjects including making India Hubs for R & D, and popularize science.” Modi said institutions The country’s education and technical needs to prepare young people for persistent interference and change, given the fourth industrial revolution.
He underlined the need to advance towards a flexible, smooth, and able to provide learning opportunities in accordance with the requirements of students and appreciated the increase in gross registration ratio (GER) in higher education in recent years.
Pradhan said India had received a new education policy after a period of 34 years and the Indian education system had taken a giant leap in fostering the environment for the 21st century futureready.
During the interaction, Professor Govindan Rangarajan from Iist Bangalore, Professor of Chaudhuri Subhasi from Iit Bombay, Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi from IIT Madras and Professor Abhay Karandikar from IIT Kanpur gave a presentation to PM and highlighted the ongoing various projects, academic work, and new research, and is being done in the country.