Chennai:
India should have an inbuilt innovation and
experimentation focus ingrained in their system of higher education like that
of developed nations so that adopting to defence needs is easier, according to
an expert.
Delivering the inaugural address at the Conference on
Defence Education in India, Governor of Chattisgarh, former deputy national
security advisor and defence secretary Shekhar Dutt said India cannot suddenly
change its orientation of education but it can do so selectively.
He said Indian universities offering defence education
should transform from a mass based system to an exclusive and individualized model
that can lead to innovation and experimentation as the skill sets required in
this model is quite different.
Dutt said the defence industry needs a base of this
nature from which it can draw talent to meet its crying need.
He said national level task forces have looked into the
matter of security and defence industry recently. “Although their
recommendations are still being examined, I suspect we may have considered
changed structures and greater decentralization as well as encouragement of
private industries but I haven’t read much about defence education,” the former
defence secretary said.
He said unless something is done about defence education,
there is little that we would be able to gain from downline instruments of
progress.
He said without defence education, defence public sector
undertakings can’t expect private capital and private industry to be enthused
in defence industry.
He also rued the fact that while the defence public
sector undertakings have delivered critical requirements to three services, it
has not been able to produce any subsequent model model or newer generation of
the technology bought from other countries. “We are stuck at the technology
level at which we started in a production line,” he said.
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