Niraj Dubey
Technical Education system is dynamic in nature. It faces many hurdles in response to societal, technological and economic changes in the environment both home and foreign.Technical education is a part of education that is directly related to the gaining of information and skills needed in manufacturing and service industries.Technical Education plays a vital role in human resource development of the country by creating skilled manpower, enhancing industrial productivity and improving the quality of life. The debate today is not only about the value and role of Technical education in the social and economic development of a nation but has a broader aspect. Technical education is widely recognized as a vital part of the total education and training system. We dwell in an age of mechanics. Technology now rules supreme in a civilized society. Man has mastered largely the forces of nature through application of technical skill. The day is not far distant when computers and even robots will rule the field of work. In the circumstances, technical education is essential to run our factories and fields of production. That is also financially advisable. We are dressed by machinery, transported by machinery, lighted by machinery, our very catering and amusements are being ministered to by the mechanical contrivances of radios, televisions and cinemas and internet arrangements. Every home has to depend on electricity; every office is equipped with telephones and teleprinters, and computing machines of all kinds.
Even the playgrounds have electrical scoreboards and timekeepers. And this mechanization of life will increase and expand as days would roll on.India is witnessing the age of science and technology. There is huge demand for technical education in modern age. There are around 6500+ engineering colleges in India producing around 1.5 Million students every year. The pattern of life evolving in this age is very much different from the one we would find in our society even some fifty years back. Technical Education imparts knowledge of specific trade, craft or profession. Technology is touching every aspect of life and society. Since Independence, the technical education system in our country has grown into a fairly large-sized system, offering opportunities for education and training in a wide variety of trades and disciplines at a certificate, diploma, degree, postgraduate degree and doctoral levels in institutions located throughout the country.After Independence, it was felt that we need a large and competent technical force to develop our own industries and infrastructures. So many technical institutes were opened throughout the country. Now we have the largest and reputed technical force in the world.Technical education requires merit and dedicated labour and almost ensures a good return in terms of employments, pay and prospects, prestige etc. In order to maintain the standard of technical education, The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was set up in 1945. AICTE is responsible for the planning, formulation and maintenance of norms and standards, quality assurance through accreditation, funding in priority areas, monitoring and evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards and ensuring coordinated and integrated development and management of technical education in the country.India is witnessing the age of science and technology. There is a huge demand of Technical Education in modern age.
General Education has been substituted by professional technical education in many cases. Technical Education offers good opportunity for employment and successful career.Technical education contributes a major share to the overall education system and plays a vital role in the social and economic development of our nation. In India, technical education is imparted at various levels such as: craftsmanship, diploma, and degree, post-graduate and research in specialized fields, catering to various aspects of technological development and economic progress.Besides, in this age of unemployment, only technical education can assure one of a job and a comfortable living. It was not just an end, it was the dream of modern India, and technical education was given the due importance with a view to realizing that dream.India has over the years significantly bolstered the quality and availability of technical education, doubling the employment rate of graduates who are now better suited to the needs of Indian Industry.
Our current industry needs specially trained technicians and workers for their achievements. Special training institutions for technical education may also be set up to meet the requirements of our armed forces in the production of arms.Today technical experts are necessary for quick agricultural progress. With the quick passage of time, we shall have to mechanize farming on a large scale we can with the help of modern technology. We shall need good industries producing machines, tractors, tube well engines etc. We must need technical experts to run these types of industries.
Telecommunications are the best effective media for transmission of information today’s world and as such quite instrumental for development process using the Communication Technology. The amalgamation of the advanced modern technology into higher education and in general Learning System, presents tremendous opportunities for improving the services available to concerned people.Technical education promotes the material prosperity and economic advancement. It produces the sense of self-respect and dignity. If a country has her own technical experts, she may save a lot of foreign exchange i.e. Technical Education makes a country rich, prosperous and resourceful. Our country is rich in raw material resources but the thing is we must have enough technical information to benefit from them.
(The author is Sr. Faculty(CSE Deptt.) – GCET Jammu.)
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