Education is the key to India’s prosperity and for education to flourish in each household of the nation is essential to reorient the entire education system, said Vice President Venkaiah Naidu.
For this to happen, it is essential that higher educational institutes revamp their education standards and create rigorous academic standards, he further added.
“We need to build the right ecosystem for academic excellence to thrive by revamping our education system.”Innovative, futuristic universities will be the drivers of this huge transformation” and “education will be the key driver of India’s transformation to prosperity”, he said.
The Vice President was present on and addressing the 7th convocation and founder’s day ceremony of the O.P. Jindal Global University.
Referring to the India’s demographic dividend he said that 65 percent of the Indians are below the age of the 35 years and emphasized on the need of converting this vast human capital into wealth creators by giving them the right education, knowledge and skills. He also urged the Indian universities to learn the best practices from the other universities which have leapfrogged the global rankings in short duration of time.
The Vice President also stressed on the need of creating a conducive environment for highly qualified Indians working overseas so that they can come back to teach in the universities.
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