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Is it not already late for Indian government to roll out its education policy as four years of the new government in office are nearly over ?. Ideally the new education policy should have been rolled out  soon after coining major missions such "Make in India", "Digital India", "Skill India" and " Start up India", well intentioned and well thought but in the absences of a well defined and well articulated education policy such novel missions would face the scarcity of talent pool, lack of  continuous supply of innovations, easy availability of advanced science and technology and above all the vital ecosystem to harness creativity and enterprising minds   that are required to make astounding success and create India of our dream, said eminent academician Professor PB Sharma, President of Association of Indian Universities, AIU while addressing the ASSOCHAM summit on Policy Reforms for Higher Education for Excellence, Employability and Ent...

Charting course for the third industrial revolution,President Associationof Indian Universities (AIU ) Prof PB Sharma has called for a serious thinking on e ngineering and technology of tomorrow, observing it will veer around co nvergence of communication and renewable energy technologies. Prof Sharma, an eminent educationist and Founder VC of Delhi Technological University says In such an industrial revolution, there is a strong possibility of realizing the dream of mass-entrepreneurship, sustainable habitat and establishing the vital harmony with nature while at the same time keeping the momentum of growth and development to manifest the promise of a happy and healthy life to the billions of people around the world. This requires our commitment to pursue the cause of Frugal Engineering to gainfully utilize the enormous power of innovation for the benefit of millions of our people in the world. He recalls on January1, 2016, the  17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG...

     FIRED by valuating hopes to bring palpable change in quality of education in country’s institutions of higher education, Noted Academician and Newly appointed President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) Prof PB Sharma has expressed grave concerns over falling standards of education in some institutions and said regulatory system must be made robust to bridle growth of engineering colleges as “Chemist Shops “. His concerns spiked after a report in a national daily recently that more than fifty per cent of seats in the private engineering colleges remained vacant this year in the wake of demand and supply gap. “Unplanned and uncontrolled growth undermines both the quality and standards and makes regulatory bodies redundant,  Dr Sharma said after the said media report. Engineering education in the country seems to have reached the saturation point with around 54 per cent of undergraduate and postgraduate seats in the private e...