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Adapt to changing situation, students told

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The Gandhigram Rural Institute Vice-Chancellor, T. Karunakaran, giving away a degree certificate to a topper at the convocation of the R.V.S. College of Engineering and Technology in Dindigul on Sunday.

DINDIGUL, JAN.30. The rural sector of new India will have to be governed by a man-machine approach, blending both mechanised world approach and manual approach, for a viable rural economy, the Gandhigram Rural Institute Vice-Chancellor, T. Karunakaran, has said.

Delivering the 16th convocation address held in the R.V.S. College of Engineering and Technology near here, he said with globalisation knocking the doors of the country, functioning of primary sector and agro-oriented secondary sector were bound to undergo a fundamental change. This change would be possible, only if the future engineers had the capacity to adapt to the changing situation.

Sustainability and global emergence of the future of Tamil Nadu also depended much on the way relevant dimensions including human life, involving technology, agriculture and management, were going to be blended and the institutions networked and their strategies synergised.

Describing the current era as a knowledge era, he said the situation had changed to an econo-tech era where science and technology became subservient to economics.

Indicating rapid changes taking place around the world, the VC said globalisation brought out by Information Technology, had been quickly skyjacked by global economic forces leading to liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation of trade, Dr. Karunakaran said.

New aggressive political forces unleashed by the techno-economic changes had put the whole humanism into a period of confusion. The technology had undergone a crucial structural change for the past three decades.

With information handled in cyberspace, Dr. Karunakaran said offices and information-oriented services could be scattered across the globe. There was no need for head offices being in crowded cities and they could be at the top of a hillock in a tribal pocket or in a ship stationed in deep-ocean. The demise of core city concept had profound implications on the field of civil engineering and architecture. Civil engineers should focus on rural habitats, he advised.

Degree certificates were distributed to 520 graduates and postgraduates. The R.V.S. Educational Trust Managing Trustee, Senthil Ganesh, and others took part.

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