AICTE organises round table conference headed by Kapil Sibal

Updated on: Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) organised a round table conference for the development of a national vocational education qualification framework with regard to the IT, ITES and Telecom industry.

Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource and Development (HRD) presided over the conference. Subsequent to the discussions, two core groups were constituted to develop the course curriculum, one under the chairmanship of N K Goyal, President CMAI Association of India (for the Telecom sector) and the other under the chairmanship of Ravi Venkatesh, Director, Micosoft India (for the IT sector) with the option of co-opting other members in these core groups. These groups are to submit their recommendations to the HRD Ministry within three months.

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