Engineering Colleges are started by Businessmen and Builders as money-spinner
projects. Sometimes serially like Starbucks/Macdonald franchises.
They throw in Publiclly Eulogized Names with degrees to attract max. entry
fees.
And as AICTE papers are easy to purchase-- rest is all bottomline.
Won't work.
Like Lakhs out of IIT/IIM has not worked
Free Oxom will have to create different kind of output.
mm> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:15:07 +0530> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[email protected]> Subject: [Assam] 70 percent engineering colleges are in
just four states (http://www.indiaedunews.net.December 17, 2007)> > 70 percent
engineering colleges are in just four states:> December 17, 2007 > > New
Delhi: Pointing out that 70 percent of the country's engineering colleges are
located in only four states, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on
Monday called for removing regional disparities in the availability of
technical education. > "There is a wide discrepancy in the capacity between the
states with over 70 percent of the capacity in degree-level engineering
education being available in the four states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka and Maharashtra," Arjun Singh said in a statement at a technical
education conference here.> > "This regional imbalance has to be minimised so
that people from all parts of the country have a fairly equal access to quality
education. > > "Public-private partnership, in this regard, may also be
desirable. While we do so, we must ensure that opportunities of quality
technical education are provided to all, equitably," he added.> > The minister
said if India has to assume leadership and realise its dream of becoming a
super-power in the near future then "we have to ensure that the abundant talent
available in the form of human resource is efficiently honed and tapped".> >
Planning commission member B. Mungekar read out Arjun Singh's speech, as the
minister could not make it to the conference organised by the All Indian
Council of Technical Education (AICTE).> > The intake capacity of the Indian
technical education system has increased manifold over the years. As on July
31, this was 627,082 students in the 1,617 AICTE-approved undergraduate degree
engineering institutions.> > There were 333,296 students in the 1,403 diploma
institutions, 104,084 students in the 1,150 management institutions, 56,004
students in the 999 MCA institutions and 44,476 students in the 736 pharmacy
degree institutions.> > Similarly, there were 4,707 students in the 116
architecture institutions and 650 students in the nine fine arts institutions
making a grand total of 842,068 students in 4,707 technical institutions. > >
Speaking at the conference, Mungekar said the knowledge economy is one of the
several ingredients for achieving 11th Five-Year Plan target of 9 percent GDP
growth. > This can be done by making education affordable to masses and not by
bypassing the poor or ignoring the backward regions of the country, not even
backward regions of the developed states in India, he emphasised.> > Mungekar
said; "Our educational system is suffering from many impediments like lack of
employability of the graduates, subject imbalance, lack of expansion, lack of
faculty development, lack of networking of institutions, lack of regular
upgradation of curriculum and lack of faculty exchange programme." IANS> > >
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