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Train budding engineers in a professional way: N.R. Shetty

Staff Correspondent

‘Industries should be involved while preparing the curriculum’

DAVANGERE: N.R. Shetty, president of the Indian Society for Technical Education and former Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University, said India stood first in producing largest number of engineers every year in the world and emphasised the need for training the budding engineers in a professional way.

Inaugurating a seminar on the “Role of faculty in the examination system” and 12th ISTE State-level annual convention here on Friday, Dr. Shetty said 30 per cent of India’s population was in the age group of 20 to 30 years and underlined the need to make use of the youth power to build a better nation.

He expressed concern that only about 12 per cent of the country’s population had access to higher education. It was the duty of the academics, managements of colleges and policymakers to evolve a system that helped students from poor background to take up higher education without any problem.

Stressing the need to provide quality education to technical students, Dr. Shetty said that after passing technical examinations, they should be in a position to meet any technical challenge. Without giving basic facilities such as library and laboratory, how could one expect students to do well in examinations?

It was difficult to evaluate a student without giving him proper coaching and infrastructure. In Canada, a diploma college offered a course in aeronautics and the total budget of that institution was Rs. 500 crore.

Dr. Shetty stressed the need for creating employment opportunities within the country and providing good salaries to engineers to ensure that they would not go abroad. Industries and institutions should be involved while preparing the curriculum, he said.

S.A. Kori, Registrar (Evaluation), VTU, Belgaum, said that there should not be any discrimination in the salaries of teachers in rural and urban areas.

Manjunath and M. Basavaraj were among those present.

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