NITTTR organizes National Innovation Talent Contest for Polytechnics

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Chandigarh 12^th May:- National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, is engaged in improving the polytechnic education system of the country by imparting training to polytechnic teaching fraternity. To ensure motivation in skill training among the students, teachers, technical staff members and to foster innovation literacy for improved downstream innovation and productivity in industry, NITTTR, Kolkata organizing `National Innovation Talent Contest for Polytechnics' in three major conventional disciplines-- Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

The key objective is to identify the levels of skill and innovation potentials of the students, teachers, and technical staff members of polytechnics and to develop cost effective technological support to the society in the domain of conventional Engineering and Technology. It also aims to foster innovation literacy for improved downstream and productivity in industry.

Prof. Phalguni Gupta, Director, NITTTR said that the Contest is aimed at bringing about revolutionary progress for polytechnic education. From teachers to students, everyone will derive benefit from the contest. It will give ample boost towards confidence building by increasing the innovation potential. Moreover Industry will get access to talent, facilities along with support to launch new products and services in the market. We have a lot of expectations from the Contest keeping in mind the hard work of everyone involved.

A skill is a type of work or activity which requires special training and knowledge. The aim of the polytechnic education in our country is to create a pool of skill based manpower to support shop floor and field operations as a middle level link between technicians and engineers. The pass-outs of diploma level Institutions in Engineering & Technology play an important role in managing shop-floor operations. It is further an established fact that small and medium scale industries prefer to employ diploma holders because of their special skills in reading and interpreting drawings, estimating, costing & billing, supervision, measurement, testing, repair, maintenance, do-it-yourself activities etc.