An Open Letter to the Nation for Transforming Technical Education in India by our Honorable Advisor Dr. M.P. Gupta –
The on-going decade has witnessed unprecedented recession in technical education system in the country. Few terms like “Ghost Campus”, “Ghost Faculty”, “Ghost Admissions” etc added to dictionary to quote mal-practices in many technical institutes. Employability and Campus Placements are the major challenges of the system.
Quality in technical institutions largely depends upon Admissions and Teaching -Learning Processes on these admitted students. Obviously, Admissions are the very basic input which becomes responsible for quality of the product.
The current situation of many private technical institutes is that instead of student allotment by the Government Counseling Authorities, these institutes spend crores and crores of rupees in bringing students through agents & brokers, false advertisements, and false commitments. These institutes are left with practically no money to spend on 2nd important aspect of Teaching-Learning Processes. Also, students brought by such methods are unwilling, weak, and insincere. Obviously, the outcomes are far away the desired one’s. They are neither employable nor placed.
Significant to mention here that during my tenure as Director Technical Education Haryana from 2000-2011, ‘Admissions’ used to be an issue but of different dimensions. Seats were low and Capitation was there. Manual centralized Counseling was cumbersome, non-transparent, and time consuming. In 2006, State of Haryana was the first to initiate “On Line-Off Campus” Counseling. It was so successful that in 2008 State of Haryana got Gold Medal from Govt Of India for this activity and almost all states followed this procedure of counseling. The initiative and execution was my brain-child.
Based my experience and observations of admissions in private institutes in the past 6-7 years, I have initiated in Technology Education & Research Integrated Institutions (TERii) Kurukshetra a “Fifteen Days Residential Free Foundation Course”. Tagline is “Know Your Institute Before Admission”. I am highly optimistic that this fair and transparent approach shall help the students and the institutes in understanding each other, cost of admissions by institutes shall come down, better students shall be available to undergo technical courses, institutes shall be more responsible and accountable to students and stake holders, the mal-practices in admission likely to be removed, and ultimately significant quality improvement in technical education system. Other institutes may follow in the time to come. TERii, most probably, is the first institute in the country to announce such an open, transparent and genuine platform to professional education genuine and eligible aspirants from all over the country.
Undoubtedly, this innovative approach, most likely, going to be a milestone for students and parents to genuinely choose the institute on merit and shall be a trend setter to define admission process for technical institutions in the country, I share this concept with Regulatory Bodies and Media for their Acknowledgement, Suggestions, Advisory, and Endorsement of this ‘15 Days Free Residential Foundation Course in TERii’, details of which are available at: http://terii.in/oldsite/free-foundation-course-terii-kurukshetra/ . Query, if any, at: +91 9996783002, 03, 01.
Sincere Regards
Dr. M.P. Gupta
(Former Director, Technical Education Department, Government of Haryana and Uttarakhand)