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Letters Time for action
Give them THAT EDGE - Roy Chowdhury
Sir, The interview with Kiran Karnik by D. Murali, in eWorld dated January 22, 2007, was interesting. It seems to me that the IT industry expects the tech education sector to provide graduates readymade for its needs. It is impossible in any country. The needs of India in the IT sector are in some sense specific just as those in other sectors such as power, manufacturing, etc. Perhaps the IT industry can offer classes in soft skills in urban areas, to start with, using Edusat, and universities can get rid of unnecessary courses in the final year to make room for the course. (This is easy since the students are burdened with a 35-hour week in all except the IITs). The IT industry can administer a computer-based test and perhaps somehow arrange for class presentations (This will be difficult but not impossible). This will help all industries. The basic intelligence of the Indian grads is excellent as I have seen by spending two decades at IITK and an equal time here. The time has come to think out of the box and propose near term solutions. Dr M.A. Pai Professor Emeritus, Dept of Electrical and Computer engineering, University of Illinois
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