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“At the end of 11th Five Year Plan, the expected growth in industrial sector will be 75 per cent”
MADURAI: Strengthening vocational programmes can be one of the ways to tackle increasing challenges in the wake of emerging new trends influenced by globalisation, said Oliver Barreau from iCAM Engineering College, Lille, France. Presenting a paper on ‘Challenges and opportunities facing technical education in Europe’ at an international seminar organised by Loyola Collaborative Action Research for Enhancement (LCARE) and Loyola Industrial Training Institute here on Saturday, Mr. Barreau said that the necessity for improvement in quality had accentuated the need for qualified hands, which triggered a change in the mindset of academicians to reformulate a curriculum to suit industrial requirement. Drawing a leaf out of experience from his home country, he said that when the need for qualified candidates was more felt in industrial maintenance, there were not many left. It propelled the institution and industry to come together to start more vocational programmes that could facilitate sustained supply of candidates catering to the industry’s requirement, he added. Calling an employed labourer ‘a worker’ had become a taboo now and the term had to be rephrased as ‘operator,’ Mr. Barreau said that the demand for such programmes offered by the institutions had grown manifold and even transcended boundaries to West African countries such as Congo and Cameroon. C.S. Rajendran, secretary, Madurai Spinners Association, said that the industry could play a major role in the socio-economic development of the nation. At the end of 11th Five Year Plan in 2012, the expected growth in India from the industrial sector would be 75 per cent, though the overall growth expected was just 30 per cent. The figure was arrived at considering the potential for growth. If the overall figure had to stay at 30 per cent, better contribution from the industrial sector was crucial, Mr. Rajendran said. “Provide more support”
As manufacturing sector had the substance to provide sustained growth, it was time the Government turned its attention towards this sector, he said and urged the Government to provide more support as economic development in tier-II cities depended on this sector. S. Maria Packiam, coordinator for the seminar, underlined the necessity to reposition technical education in India to empower the work force in the local and global labour market. C. Muruganandham, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, delivered a lecture on ‘The possible collaboration in terms of research, training and exchange of faculty and students.’
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