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Education system needs a

linkage with industry: Naidu

Venkaiah Naidu advises government, academia and the industry to come together to look into
reorienting the learning process so that students coming out from the higher education institutions
are employable or become self-employed,reports tehelka bureau

ducation system should be re- business incubation has been glob- trepreneurship are going to be the twin
oriented by ensuring greater ally recognized as an important tool engines that will propel India to a new
linkage between academia- for economic development and job era of economic prosperity and social
industry to make students creation. inclusion.
E employable, Vice-President of The innovation, incubation, and He had a word of praise for the in-
India, M. Venkaiah Naidu recently sug- start-ups are the buzz words in to- novation-based start-ups promoted by
gested while addressing the gathering day’s world and countries and socie- the prestigious Nidhi –CoE lab in the
at the Vel Tech University in Chennai ties which are knowledge-centric and institution. Significantly, this is the only
where Tamil Nadu Governor Banwar- technology-driven will play an increas- Centre of Excellence in the private sec-
ilal Purohit was also present. ing role in the global economy. For tor among the six such CoEs approved
The Vice-President wanted the gov- us in India, this is the time to seize the in the first phase. He appreciated Prof.
ernment, academia, and the industry to opportunity and promote the culture Col. Vel R Rangarajan and Dr. Saguntha-
come together to look into reorienting of innovation and technology-based la Rangarajan, the Founders of Vel Tech
the education system so that students entrepreneurship, he added. for providing quality education through
coming out from the portals of higher He lauded the Institute for its focus a multitude of academic programmes.
education institutions are employable on research-intensive teaching and Business incubation has been glob-
or become self-employed. He said that learning practices. Innovation and En- ally recognized as an important tool for

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