India churns out a third of worlds engineers

<p style="text-align: justify;">India accounts for nearly a third of the world's engineering graduates each year, and offers a million students the opportunity to pursue technology courses annually, Science and Technology Secretary T. Ramasami said here Saturday.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><img style="border: 3px solid black; margin: 3px 4px; float: left;" src="https://images.shiksha.com/mediadata/images/1265604014phphLp6Bg.jpeg " alt="" width="150" height="110">"Indians represent nearly 30 percent of the global annual supply of graduate engineers," Ramasami, a scientist, said while delivering the keynote address at the second convocation of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala.<br /><br /><br />"The world respects Indians for their originality and analytical strength. The other day, a leader of the world warned his people, 'Watch, the Indians are coming'," said Ramasami, a Padma Shri awardee.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />"Engineers should mentally and professionally prepare themselves for innovations with twin priorities of quality and affordability. Nano, Chandrayaan-1 are examples of affordable innovations where cost optimization has been accomplished with relatively low levels of investments," he added.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />At Saturday's convocation, 256 students including 60 girls were awarded degrees in engineering, with eight students bagging gold medals.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />NITs are premier engineering and technology colleges, earlier called Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br />In 2002, the human resource development ministry decided to upgrade all the 17 RECs as NITs in phases. There are currently 20 NITs, the one in Agartala being the latest.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/</strong></p> <p><strong>Date: 8th feb., 2010</strong></p> <hr /> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>For further details about related courses and colleges please click below:</strong></span></p> <p><a title="Related courses and colleges" href="https://science.shiksha.com">Related courses and colleges</a></p>