He asked educators to take inspiration from the holistic Vedic education and understand the vision behind the New Education Policy.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naid has urged the students to leverage technology to create opportunities out of the COVID-19 pandemic instead of taking it as a crisis. He also said that India is the best place right now to implement their business ideas.
"We have to learn lessons from this pandemic, and experts need to come up with solutions to meet such threats in the future," he added, addressing the 13th e-convocation of ICFAI University, Sikkim, via video-conferencing.
Mr Naidu directed universities to prepare students to effectively deal with real-world challenges as he cited the example of the pandemic that caught all countries off-guard and unprepared. "For those of you seeking to become job creators, there cannot be a better place to implement your business ideas than India right now," Mr Naidu said. He also asked the Universities and educators to re-evaluate the education system to make it more value-based, holistic and complete, an official statement said.
He asked educators to take inspiration from the holistic Vedic education and understand the vision behind the New Education Policy.
Quoting Rabindranath Tagore, Mr Naidu said education without values is no education at all. "Educational institutions and universities are expected to produce well-rounded and compassionate human beings and not mere degree holders," he said, and rued often this aspect gets ignored in the race for paycheques.
He stressed on the need to equip engineers and technologists to create new defenses and come up with innovative outside-the-box solutions to meet the challenges posed by extreme weather events. No human intervention can totally withstand nature's fury but we have to minimize its impact, he said.
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