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Wednesday, Jul 19, 2006
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Events States - Tamil Nadu `Actionable' plan must to replicate Silicon Valley here Our Bureau
CALL FOR FREEDOM: Mr Kiran Karnik (right), President, Nasscom, and Mr C. Chandramouli, IT Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, at the Nasscom HR Summit 2006, in Chennai on Tuesday. — Bijoy Ghosh
Chennai , July 18 Want progress? Give the Government an actionable plan. That was the refrain that Dr C. Chandramouli, Tamil Nadu's Information Technology Secretary, took this morning as he addressed the inaugural session of Nasscom's annual HR Summit here on Tuesday. Dr Chandramouli said, "People draw a comparison between Chennai and Silicon Valley. The Valley has good universities, as does Chennai with its IIT and Anna University. Industry captains urge me to replicate Silicon Valley here. When I, as policy maker, ask them for an actionable plan, most promise to revert. Nobody does." He urged Nasscom to come out with such a plan.
Skill mapping
He also dwelt on the poor quality of candidates graduating out of colleges. He asked, "Why is there this anomaly of 40 per cent of some 80,000 engineers graduating out of colleges in Tamil Nadu, unemployed for two years after graduation?" He then said that skill mapping in Tamil Nadu showed that the Government needed to look at the problem from three levels: system related issues, faculty related issues and the need for industry-academia interaction. He observed that problems included lack of integrated systems of education and that the quality of students entering diploma or engineering courses had gone down. He also said that the ratio of faculty to students was as high as 1:40 and sometimes even 1:50. "We need to improve commitment on the part of the faculty and to address the disconnect between faculty and the industry, through training." He also said that the HR industry had not contributed to updating skills of the faculty. Referring to points that Mr Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom, had raised in an article in the media, Dr Chandramouli said, "The finishing school concept is commendable. But that alone might not be adequate. We need to address the problem of skills advancement in school itself. Doing it in the last four years of the candidates' student life is not enough. If we start right from school, then we can make engineers substantially ready for industry when they graduate." He said that the State Government was planning centres for excellence towards revising curricula and training faculty. He added that it had also decided to build satellite townships with high-speed transport networks into the city, in order to decongest the city.
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