Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Nov 11: Prof D P Agrawal, former Chairman Union Public Service Commission, Educational Advisor to Ministry of HRD and founder of the National Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, delivered a lecture at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, here today.
In his lecture on the theme “Opportunities for Students in Emerging Economy”, Prof Agrawal emphasized upon role of the students in the emergent global economy. “The world today is completely changed and the youth has to play a key role in the pace of progress not only in terms of contributing to economic and technical growth but in terms of meaningful existence and protection of the environment,” he said and added that role of the universities is to be seen in terms of producing students capable of leading the society in this direction.
“The curricula of the university education have to be changed in conformity with the need of the future. The academia have to see how an engineering graduate, a scientist, a management professional perceives the world, foresees the challenges, imagines the solutions and envisages the course of future,” he further said.
Maintaining that India is the fastest growing economy in the world today, Prof Agarwal stressed that we should have more literacy, more education, and more employability to develop as a nation.
While commenting upon the objectives of the ‘Neeti-Aayog’, he emphasized that in view of the objective of equipping the youth with skills, the youth have to think out of the box and come up with solutions.
The session was followed by an interactive session. Dr Sanjeev Jain, Vice Chancellor SMVDU, felicitated the speaker and Dr Anil K Tewari delivered the vote of thanks.
Earlier, Prof V Verma, Dean Faculty of Engineering, introduced the speaker.
Dr Sanjay Mishra, Dr Suparn Sharma, Dr Yugal Khajuria, Dr Pankaj Bishwas, Dr Sumeet Gupta, Dr Balbir Singh, Dr V K Tripathi and many other faculty members were present on the occasion.
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