Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said higher education institutions should equip the youth with 21st century skills as the fourth industrial revolution is knocking at India’s door and India cannot afford to miss this opportunity.
Addressing the 6th Convocation of PES University in Bengaluru, the Vice President said, “Today the Fourth Industrial Revolution is knocking at our door and it is driven by the knowledge economy and cutting edge technological innovations. We cannot afford to miss this opportunity. and our higher education institutions should equip our youth with the skills of the 21st century.”
‘India to become a global drone hub’
Further noting that drone technologies are another emerging sector that offers tremendous benefits to almost all sectors of the economy including agriculture, surveillance, transportation, defense and law enforcement, the Vice President said that more than five lakh from the drone service industry More jobs are expected to be created. Over the next three years and India with its traditional strengths in innovation, IT and frugal engineering has the potential to become a global drone hub in the coming decade.
“We should focus our attention on creating skilled manpower for this sector….. In fact, all our higher education institutions and universities must live up to the national needs and review their existing courses and align them with emerging global trends. Or new courses should be introduced according to them,” he said.
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NEP 2020
Calling for implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) in “letter and spirit”, he said, the objective of NEP-2020 is to transform and reshape the country’s higher educational institutions to the challenges of the knowledge economy. .
“The New Education Policy is a well-documented, well-researched and well-thought out policy document, which has been prepared after a long, detailed discussion with all stakeholders, and every university and educational institution, state and central government institutions. It has been presented before the country. The policy should be implemented seriously and truthfully.”
He said that in the 21st century, the global economy is dominated by knowledge related activities, he said that India aims to become a billion dollar economy by 2050 and NEP-2020 sets a target of at least 50 percent of this in the times to come. Is. knowledge-related activities and skills.
‘Technological advancement needed’
He said that technical universities have a special role in transforming India into knowledge power. The Vice President said that there is an urgent need to align our university classrooms with emerging global trends such as 5G-based technologies, which find application in many fields including agriculture, medical, administrative, commerce and industrial management.
Appreciating the two satellites built and launched by the students and staff of PES University in collaboration with DRDO and ISRO, he said, the government has brought far-reaching reforms in the space sector with the aim of promoting private sector participation in the space sector. . ,
“I would urge our private institutions and universities to make the best use of this opportunity and work towards making India self-reliant and technologically advanced in the space sector,” he said.
More Indian writers needed in engineering: VP
Suggesting universities to lay more emphasis on implementable patents under Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) rather than academic patents to boost the economy and industry, the Vice President said that India should urgently take a multidisciplinary approach to R&D. There is a need to adopt and the industry-institution should also be strengthened. Relationship to better research results.
“I have found that many technical books used by engineering students in India are published by foreign authors. It would be great if our learned academicians could boost the knowledge economy by writing books of global standards on contemporary subjects. I do this because I am saying this because Indian authors can better refer to the content of engineering courses in relation to Indian socio-economic conditions.”
He said that this would be helpful for the young students as they would be able to better understand and find solutions to the many problems faced by rural India, farmers and other disadvantaged groups of the society.
“We should also try to make study material in Indian languages for the benefit of our students. We should promote Indian languages. I want to see a day when all technical courses including medicine are taught in the student’s mother tongue.” Naidu also called for indigenous publication of academic journals to retain copyright and ownership of the knowledge originated in this country, which is otherwise likely to be transferred to international journals in which our research papers are published.
Highlighting that socially relevant research and technologies are the need of the hour, the Vice President said, “In recent times, two such issues are demanding global attention, namely, climate change and sustainable development. Technical Universities And national institutions have an obligation to participate in these globally prioritized issues.”
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