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Prez launches IMPRINT : edu institutes joint research prog
President Pranab Mukherjee launched IMPRINT India, a joint initiative of country's top educational institutes, aimed at developing a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology challenges even as he expressed concern over the low gross enrolment ratio.
Speaking at the Visitor's Conference on Thursday Mukherjee said, Low Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) at 21% in ndia as against the world average of 27% remains a cause for concern. A new education policy is being formulated. I am told that a process of consultation has commenced on 13 themes for school education and 20 themes for higher education. The new policy must alter he dynamics of the education sector and help us achieve the GER target of 30% by 2020, a goal we cannot afford to miss. About 45 pacts between 25 companies and academic institutions were also signed. PM Modi and HRD minister Smriti Irani were also present at the event held in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Imprint India is based on PM Modi's suggestion that research done by institutions of national importance must be linked with immediate requirements of the society.
Imprint will focus on 10 themes, each to be coordinated by one IIT or IISc, like healthcare (IIT Kharagpur), computer science and ICT (IIT Kharagpur), water resources and river systems (IIT Kanpur), defence and manufacturing (IIT Madras), among others.
(ToI)
Speaking at the Visitor's Conference on Thursday Mukherjee said, Low Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) at 21% in ndia as against the world average of 27% remains a cause for concern. A new education policy is being formulated. I am told that a process of consultation has commenced on 13 themes for school education and 20 themes for higher education. The new policy must alter he dynamics of the education sector and help us achieve the GER target of 30% by 2020, a goal we cannot afford to miss. About 45 pacts between 25 companies and academic institutions were also signed. PM Modi and HRD minister Smriti Irani were also present at the event held in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Imprint India is based on PM Modi's suggestion that research done by institutions of national importance must be linked with immediate requirements of the society.
Imprint will focus on 10 themes, each to be coordinated by one IIT or IISc, like healthcare (IIT Kharagpur), computer science and ICT (IIT Kharagpur), water resources and river systems (IIT Kanpur), defence and manufacturing (IIT Madras), among others.
(ToI)
