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Stalin gives credit to State policies for creation of job opportunities

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Cites facilities provided for high quality technical education in Tamil Nadu For every engineer the U.S. produces, China and India together produce 14 engineers

PROUD MOMENT: A student receives the certificate from Local Administration Minister M. K. Stalin (second from right), at the graduation day of Anna University in Chennai on Saturday. Vice-Chancellor D. Viswanathan (centre) and Namas Chandra, Associa te Dean for Research, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, U.S., are also in the picture. — Photo: Shaju John

CHENNAI: The State Government's initiatives in promoting education and industry have resulted in a huge potential for employment generation in Tamil Nadu, Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin said on here Saturday.

The State's policies in encouraging investments in the industrial sector had resulted in several foreign players setting up automotive and information technology ventures on an enormous scale. As such sectors offered satisfactory remuneration packages to engineering students, it led to an increase in employment and less dependence on foreign jobs, he said, delivering the convocation address during the Graduation Day of Anna University departments.

40 IT Parks

The IT sector, especially, was teeming with employment opportunities. The Government had given permission to set up 40 IT parks so far in cities such as Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi and Hosur. All this was because the State offered facilities for high quality technical education and was the intellectual capital of the country. Though the United States was the top economic and scientific superpower, it produced only 70,000 engineers a year. Anna University generated as many engineers every year and the entire country, 3,60,000 engineers, Namas Chandra, associate dean for research, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, US, said.

For every engineer the U.S. produced, China and India together produced 14 engineers. The difference, however, lay in quality and not in quantity, he said. A total of 2,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students received their degrees. Of these, 93 were gold medallists.

Anna University Vice-Chancellor D. Viswanathan and Registrar K. Jayaraman were present.

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