By 1 2 1 News Reporter
Chandigarh 18th October: --- Stressing on the need to create an economic environment that promotes the growth of enterprise and stimulate the economy, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister, Haryana, said, that Education alone does not lead to industrialization or creation of employment opportunities or eradication of poverty. Government, industry and academia have to come together. Bhupinder Singh Hooda was speaking during the national conference "A New Era of Industrial Development in the Northern India –Role of Private Sector Educational Institutions" organized jointly by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI) at PHD House, here today. Dr. K K Khandelwal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Haryana accompanied the Chief Minister on the occasion.
Talking about the gap between the available skills and the required skill sets, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said, that it is here that the educational institutions, both in the public and private sector have to assume the responsibility for bridging this gap. It is an immediate need that the government, industry and education sector come together and develop an ecosystem where these gaps are addressed effectively. Industry is the largest employer of the passed out students from educational institutions and hence direct beneficiary of any quantitative and qualitative improvement. The Chief Minister said that his Government will make all efforts to increase industry academia interaction.
Earlier, Dalip Sharma, Regional Director, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry said, that it is very important to create strong partnerships between the industry and the academia. What needs to be built is a vibrant, continuous partnership, where there is constant exchange of ideas between the industry and the academia."
Echoing the Chief Minister's concern, Pranav Gupta, member, Managing Committee, PHD Chamber said, that Industries need to partner with educational institutions directly for the development of human resources dedicated to their interests. This could happen in the areas of creating infrastructure, faculty sharing and direct support with funds, establishing state of the art Research and Training centres to develop the necessary specialized man power.
Speaking at the conference, distinguished education sector leaders and Corporate Sector spoke about the contribution of private sector institutions for the developments in industrial Sector. They insisted that the Government(s) should encourage the private sector educational institutions autonomy, Public Private Partnership. Also they requested to avoid the licence raj and made and quality development in higher education.
Dr. G Viswanathan, President, EPSI and founder of VIT University said, that while government dismantled the License & Permit Raj for the industry in 1991, the same continues in the education sector. The current laws that the MHRD is mooting are retrograde to the growth of education sector." In order to expand Higher Education the Govt. should encourage more private investment to be made in the University & Colleges. He informed that private sector has contributed immensely towards increasing GER. However, to leap from the current 12% to 25%, a lot of private sector role is envisaged. Government must facilitate rather than obstruct the growth of private sector.
Offering the industry perspective, V. Ramaswamy, Global Head, Small & Medium Business, Tata Consultancy Services observed that Indian Education System has seen a huge transformation from gurukul centric system in ancient India to modern day technology driven institutions. He said that educational institutions traditionally have been knowledge centric and have nurtured talent in this direction, where as the industry has been skills centric and has its processes revolving around skill set of the work force. The time has come to plug this gap by more and more interaction at all levels. He observed that some of the institutions in India have leveraged technology to make improvement in the quality of teaching learning process but this aspect needs to be proliferated in a big way. He appreciated the efforts of EPSI in bridging the gap between industry and academia.
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