Chennai:
Greater
emphasis should be given on developing suitable grassroots technologies for
empowerment of rural population, according to Indian President Pranab
Mukherjee.
Addressing
The 28th Indian Engineering Congress here, The Indian President said
true development entails composite development of the nation with progress
touching all sectors and regions.
Mukherjee
said development status of a nation is fashioned by its technological prowess.
Like Japan and Singapore, India should leverage knowledge infrastructure to
develop growth inducing technology.
Expressing
concern that India’s growth rate has dipped to 5 per cent, the lowest in 10
years, Mukerjee said that the immediate challenge is to reverse the
deceleration and nurse the growth path back to eight per cent plus levels often
clocked by India in the past.
He
also said that engineering and technology in the country should be driven by
competent engineers and scientists. He said that India has a formidable set-up
of engineering and technical institutions but many of them are low in terms of
the standard education imparted.
“In
pursuit of expanding engineering education in the country, academic excellence
must be given equal priority besides the educational standards must be geared
to international benchmarks,” he said.
Urging
the Institution of Engineers (India) which has a wide network all over India,
to set up Institute of Excellence in Engineering and Technology to create
synergy between industry and academia through high quality engineering
education and innovative research, he said every engineering and technical institute
must make an all effort to help India develop large pool of proficient
scientific and technical power.
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