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Mushrooming tech institutes a bane: Sibal
UNION MINISTER for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said that due to unbridled growth of technical institutes, the quality of education had suffered. Graduate engineers from most such institutions ended up joining call centres or opted for dismal vocations, which was a tremendous loss of young talent. Addressing the 38th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) here on Monday .
UNION MINISTER for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said that due to unbridled growth of technical institutes, the quality of education had suffered. Graduate engineers from most such institutions ended up joining call centres or opted for dismal vocations, which was a tremendous loss of young talent.
Addressing the 38th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) here on Monday, the minister said since mid-eighties, there has been mushrooming of engineering and technical educational institutions in the private sector and technical education in the country developed faster than anywhere else in the world.
Today we can boast of the second largest engineering stock, with perhaps 40 lakh graduate engineers with a current annual enrollment at around five lakhs.
However, this brought down the quality of technical education he said.
He advised young engineering graduates that the acquisition of knowledge should be a constant endeavour as it opened endless opportunities.
“The civilisation in the last two centuries has moved from the ‘steam engine’ to the ‘search engine’ and I just hope that your thirst for search is a constant endeavour, in which you use science and knowledge for the well-being of humanity,” he said.
He further said science and technology should be used to solve everyday problems of the human beings in general.
He advised the young graduates to imbibe five qualities in themselves. Have a healthy body and a genuine desire to help others, never forget the person who ever helped you, have the will to win, treat failures as your teachers and avoid rushing for success at others’ cost.
