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President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Interacts with Management Students at LIBA The President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, today paid a visit to Loyola Institute of Business Administration to interact with the management students at the Institute.` Having arrived amidst much fanfare, the President was apologetic for having kept the crowd waiting owing to earlier programmes that had been delayed. The forty-minute interactive session was laden with the President's jocular comments, humour and wit. He had the crowd in splits when he was reminiscing an incident at St.Joseph's college, Trichy in 1950-54, a time when, he remarked, most in the gathering "were not even ideas". He was referring to his "Moral Science" class, which was taken by Reverend Father Rector Kalathil who helped them "learn something bigger than us". He also shared with the students an incident at the Rashtrapati Bhavan when he was receiving a group of 60 final year students from MIT, Boston. When asked what they would like to do in future, 45 out of the 60 said they would start their own enterprise, either individually or join together for software, hardware or any other enterprise. Of the remaining, 15 wanted to go for further research while around 10 people had not made up their minds. The President used this instance to drive home the fact that evolving entrepreneurship was integral to the growth of the country. He stated that every year the country was generating 7 million 10+2 students in India and 3 million graduates apart from big schools like B-schools, like the IITs. He was of the opinion that the government, the centre and state don't have the employment potential. This found him persuading the UGC, AICTE and various educational institutions to carve out in the 3-4 years course, entrepreneurship skills in the 10+2 level secondary education period, in addition to the 10+2 certificate. He tried to draw a comparison with the degree course in it being imperative that they be given a diploma certificate in addition to their training certificate. "If education does not give, then it is not good education," he added. He was of the opinion that when the student goes out, he should have got trained in entrepreneurship skills. These two combination of skills makes him "a person to take his own way and he becomes a generator of employment," he said. Contributed by - |
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