50 centres to improve tech education

Updated on: Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Mangalore: To improve the existing quality of technical education, the Union Government intends to establish about 50 centres of training and research in frontier areas, including bio-informatics, mechatronics, high performance computing, nano-materials and nano technologies, said Union Minister for Law and Justice M Veerappa Moily in Mangalore on Monday.

He was addressing the gathering at the inauguration of golden jubilee celebrations of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK).

The former Karnataka chief minister expressed concern over the lack of research and development efforts and not so encouraging investment on the corporate sector's front. He reasoned that the trend may be attributed to the fact that there are an inadequate number of highly trained and R&D personnel at the PhD level.

Moily stressed on innovative measures to augment shortage in faculty and provide cutting edge infrastructure to science and technology, R&D initiatives. 'Indian institutions should open up for international faculty, visiting programmes and faculty exchange on a wider scale.
The recruitment policy should be reviewed for providing flexibility in appointments, short-term contracts and possibility of outsourcing select faculty,' Moily suggested.

He said that the government is taking the Prof Yashpal committee into cognisance as part of the implementation of large scale reforms to meet the challenges of diversification and maintaining quality standards.
Moily expressed happiness at the launch of NITK's golden jubilee celebrations and traced its rise from humble dwellings to becoming one of the top ten technological institutions in the country.

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