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As Unemployment is   assuming alarming proportions in India, Eminent Academician Prof. PB Sharma,President of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has asserted that new education policy, being framed now, should be targeted to boost employability of professional education, from currently 15-20 % to 120% on one hand and ensuring relevance of research and innovations to the needs of the society and industry at home on the other. He says it should also meet the regional and global aspirations, adding “We need to align India's Education Policy to National Development to pay attention to creating “Advantage India” from the efforts we invest in education and research and make education a powerful vehicle of societal transformation”.     Unfortunately, the goal of successive education policies in the past revolved around increasing access in the name of increased Gross Enrolment Ratio, GER, in higher education and inclusive education being grossly misundersto...

Reacting sharply to high pollution levels in the country, Association of Indian Universities (AIU) President Prof P.B Sharma has said there is a need also to foster the growth of Green Science, Green Engineering and Green Management in fact Green consciousness and spirit of sustainability in all aspects of in the University life. He said there is no escape from the growing challenge and it must be tackled by all with full devotion before it is too late. All universities and colleges in India must echo in the corridors of University the need for care and concern for environmental health. He said everyone should collectively put one’s best efforts to create the public pressure on policy makers and on those who are responsible for implementing the policies and programs. "It makes me sad that pollution control boards, like CPCB are busy only in pollution monitoring, while they should be implementing a zero tolerance policy for polluting industry, organisations and indiv...