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Exhibition drives home concept of Advantage India

Staff Reporter

Showcases glory of country, planning experience, opportunities and prospects

TALENT ON DISPLAY: Students being briefed on a futuristic model of an overbridge in Coimbatore at the exhibition organised by the PSG College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore on Tuesday. — PHOTO: S. SIVA SARAVANAN

COIMBATORE: China has succeeded as a manufacturing economy. India in the face of stiff competition has succeeded as a service economy. It is no more just an agrarian economy, P. Thirumalvalavan, Registrar, Bharathiar University said here on Tuesday.

He was inaugurating a three-day exhibition organised by the Department of Economics on the theme `Heritage India, Vintage India, Advantage India' at the PSG College of Arts and Science.

Mr. Thirumalvalavan said, "India's advantage is its human resources.

"But when the economic growth is not commensurate with the population growth, the country's economy will be in deep trouble.

Bigger goals

"Such efforts by budding economists like you to showcase the core competencies of Coimbatore as well as of the country through such exhibitions will serve as steps to achieve bigger goals."

He appreciated the students who had organised the programme for having chosen a relevant topic that dealt with all the important aspects of India.

Mr. Thirumalvalavan hoped that school and college students who would visit the exhibition would be benefited.

The exhibition being organised as a first time attempt, showcased India's past glory, its post-independence planning experience and its opportunities and prospects.

Mainly consisting of charts, posters and models, the exhibition had basic information as to what economics was and what were the opportunities available for economics graduates.

V. Mohanasundaram, Reader, Department of Economics said, "Students have applied the concepts in making forecasts for the economic future.

Innovative models

"Using the foreign trade procedures and practices, they have developed innovative models.

"The main idea is to tell students that - using our past and present achievements and developments - we have an advantage over others to become a great country. Some 26 schools and ten colleges have been invited to the exhibition."

Charts

Charts depicting the advantages of the Sethusamudram project, future trends in transport sector, health insurance, medical tourism, achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015, and several other topical themes, found a place in the exhibition.

Pictures of heritage and vintage India found a place of prominence. `Think global and act global', was the watchword advocated by the exhibition.

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