Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: Minister for Higher Education, Labour and Employment Abdul Gani Malik has lauded the role of private educational institutions and educational societies in the State in raising the state of the art infrastructure, imparting quality education and offering employability opportunities to the students of all three regions.
Inaugurating the two day workshop at Gandhi Memorial College of Education, Raipur Bantalab near here he lauded the management of the Hindu Education Society Kashmir (HESK) as ‘brand ambassadors’ in the field of education.
Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmir, Prof. Talat Ahmad was present as guest of honour.
The Minister also underscored the need to design more and more short term capsule courses to train the counselors and resource persons to tap the potential of the ODL system. He assured all possible help from the State Government to all those private institutions who are looking forward to introduce new courses to expand the scope of distance education. He said the State Government has already constituted a High Level Committee to study and introduce new courses in the curriculum.
Dr Talat Ahmed,Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmir in his address appreciated the strong collaboration between University of Kashmir and HESK, adding “societies can develop only through education. We have to bring out and identify the issues in the field of education which are being ignore since long.” He assured that University of Kashmir will continue to collaborate with HESK in the field of educational development
Dr. Nilofar Khan, Director, Directorate of Distance Education briefly presented the profile of DDE highlighting the working and the different courses offered by the Department in the field of education.
Anil Dhar, President, HESK formally welcomed and felicitated Minister for Higher Education and Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmir.
Prof. Biswas, the expert from STRIDE IGNOU also gave a brief introduction about the workshop.
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