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Teach employable skills to students: Guv
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State governor E S L Narasimhan lambasted the government, technical and medical education governing bodies over the state of affairs of education in the State.
Says education has been commercialised in the country
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State governor E S L Narasimhan lambasted the government, technical and medical education governing bodies over the state of affairs of education in the State.
“How do we make medical education affordable? How do we stop colleges collecting exorbitant fee? Can’t we bring a code of conduct to punish people who charge crores of rupees for medical education?,” asked Narasimhan while addressing the audience at the golden jubilee sciences congress of AP Akademi of Sciences (APAS) at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) here on Thursday.
Taking on the government and education governing bodies, Governor said education has become a farce in the country. “Education has been commercialised in the country. It is time that government puts its foot down,” Narasimhan said.
He further added engineering graduates were being produced without employable skills. “Today engineering graduates are working as peons and constables. Why skills that will be useful for employability can’t be introduced in the course. Time has come for the hard thinking on the education in the country. One should stop diplomatic talks in the field of medical and engineering education,” he opined.
The Governor asserted that medical care in the present context could not be affordable by a common man. “How do we make medical care less expensive? If a common man is ill and government does not reimburse the bill. I think he will die because of paying the bill rather than the illness,” Narasimhan said.
He urged the scientific community to come up with nano-technology for curing cancers and appealed to them to come up with a contingency plan for food security in the country.
“It is unfortunate to see rural to urban migration as people in rural areas see that agricultural is not worth doing. If we want to retain agriculture has the priority sector, scientists have to devise ways to improve the agriculture output in wake of challenges like shrinking land, water and scarcity of energy resources,” Governor said.
He called upon scientific community to setup solar-powered science park for the children on lines science parks at Raipur and Chhattisgarh. “Setup a solar energy-based Science Park with only science games like quiz, puzzles etc. The park will create interest among the students towards science,” governor said.
In his address, Vishwa Mohan Katoch, director general, Indian Council of Medical Research and Secretary of Department of Health Research, said convergence of institutes was the need of the hour for effective research outcome.
During the three-day event, D Balasubramanian, director, LVPEI was presented with Dr Y Nayudamma Memorial Gold medal and three other senior scientists were presented with lifetime achievement awards. The APAS also facilitated its founder and past members during the event.
