Tech education has grown by leaps and bounds in West Bengal, and chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee wants to showcase this to the rest of the country. So he has written to state higher education department to organise a summit where the heads of technological education from across the country, especially the neighbouring states, would be invited to witness the sea change has taken place over last five years.
The summit, planned for February 14-15, will be the first of its kind here and will be attended by key people from AICTE, the IITs, the RECs and major tech colleges of other states.
Even five years ago, the state had just six government-run engineering institutions that could accommodate only a handful of bright students. Thousands of students had to either go to the southern states or head for Delhi or Maharashtra to study engineering. “Now the scenario has changed and the proverbial ‘trainloads’ no longer leave the state. Today, we have 54 engineering colleges that are prepared to accept not only all our students, but even those from other states. This year we have absorbed nearly 3,000 students from other states in our tech colleges. This indeed calls for some celebration and the chief minister is justified in asking us to organise the summit,” director of technical education Sajal Dasgupta told TOI.
Right from the quality of teaching and results to the quality of placement students are getting,
everything will be on display at the summit. Six sessions have been planned for the two days, focusing on different aspects of tech education.
The summit will open with ‘Quality of Technological Education: Destination West Bengal’. “We would focus on our teaching standards, the advanced topics covered by our syllabi keeping with global trends and the brilliant results of our students that have generated interest among corporates.
“The second session has been named WB Tech Education: The Global Gateway To Jobs. Here we will reveal our job placement consultants reports from different campuses. You would be amazed to know the large numbers that have bagged jobs with MNCs,” Dasgupta said.
All eyes are likely to be on the session titled Synergy With Neighbouring States, where heads of technological institutions of north-eastern states, placement consultancy in Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh will be invited over and plans for bringing about uniformity in syllabi, student and teacher exchange programmes and sharing of resources will be chalked out. “Some of these states are trying to establish their own tech colleges now and are seeking advise from us. We are in a position to extend such job consultancy in Bhubaneswar services,”
Grooming of budding engineers will also be discussed and right from communication skills to right dressing and attitude, everything will be thrashed out and new recommendations made.
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