The West Bengal government is working on strategies for continuous upgradation of the education infrastructure making different courses job-intensive, while planning to set up a monitoring team to oversee private educational institutes and universities.
"Education must be job-intensive and there should be continuous upgradation of infrastructure. Standard of education should never be compromised," state higher education minister Partha Chatterjee today said.
Chatterjee was inaugurating the 'Education Exhibition - 2016' organised by Association of Professional Academic Institutions (APAI) here as part of the pre-counselling for e-admission of engineering students.
He said the state government was planning to set up a monitoring team to oversee private educational institutes and universities and the standard of education in the state would never be compromised.
Speaking on the functioning of different private engineering and technical institutes, the minister urged the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) to keep a tab on such institutes to ensure their norms were not flouted.
Engineering and technical institutes should organise interfaces with industries to ensure their students get employment opportunities immediately after completion of their courses, he said.
Chatterjee also asked the institute authorities to ensure
that poor and meritorious students were given priority in education.
Stating that West Bengal has now many prospects for technical and higher education, he said students would not have to go to other states for education.
"Many talents are there in engineering colleges, both government and private, and there is need for collaborative development of technology and products," the minister said.
Regarding admission to BA, BSc and BCom courses in different colleges, Chatterjee said the government was strengthening the online admission system.
State IT minister Bratya Basu stressed on the need for a large number of technocrats and IT professional for the growing market in the state.
Stating that technical education has gone through a sea-change in the state, Basu hoped a large number of students coming out of these institutes could be able to meet the growing need of the industry.
State technical education minister Ashima Patra said the state government was keen on further developing technical education in the state. Two more government engineering colleges have been set up this year, she said.
Techno India group director Satyam Roy Chowdury announced on the occasion that 1,000 poor and meritorious students from weaker sections would be offered free admission in its colleges as a CSR effort.
