CHANDIGARH: The Haryana State Board of Technical Education has decided to accept the recommendations of the Naveen Jindal Committee to suggest ways and means to improve the quality of polytechnic education in the State and formulate an action plan for implementation of these recommendations. Mr.Jindal is the sitting Congress Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra.

The Board met here on Tuesday night under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, after a gap of 10 years.

Mr. Hooda laid stress on improving the quality of technical education and suggested that Mahrishi Dayand University, Rohtak, be consulted to improve the quality of faculty. Every teacher should be trained in industry and effective steps should be taken to encourage the students in rural areas to join polytechnics.

He said that his regime had already approved the setting up of five polytechnics in the self-financing sector with an intake of 1,040 seats in engineering and one pharmacy polytechnic with 60 seats. The number of polytechnics had increased from 37 to 43 and intake capacity from 8,665 to 9,705. Motivational schemes for faculty and students had also been introduced.

The Board decided to set up a placement cell in Gurgaon to help the students in getting more employment opportunities. It also decided to set up a data cell having information about the students studying in various trades at polytechnics and opportunities available for them in various industries.

The State Board of Technical Education would be strengthened by constituting a Finance Committee headed by Commissioner and Secretary, Technical Education to approve the annual budget and undertake other related functions.

It also approved the proposal to make itself self-sustaining to take up the tasks of material development, teachers training, establish rapport with industry and have third party inspections of the institutions.

The main recommendations of the Jindal Committee included emphasis on developing skilled technicians of world standard, inclusion of competence and performance standards for different occupations and adoption of competence based approach in polytechnics and industrial training institutes.

It also recommended that in multi-skilled and multi-modular structure of technical education and industrial training, the right sequence of learning modules should be logically determined following the principle of prerequisites.

It also recommended third party inspection of the institutions and effective rapport with industries. It also recommended formulation of a plan for staff development programme stressing that instructional staff should be trained to attain higher competencies and performance standards.

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