Amid the Central and State governments' focus on promoting digital learning, it is important to ensure that there is no digital divide, said the Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu.
Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu has inaugurated the Sports Centre at the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (NITTTR) in Chennai today and expressed concerns about the impact of the pandemic on education.
He said that while Central and State governments are taking measures to promote digital learning, it is important to ensure that there is no digital divide. He has called for increased access to the internet in remote and rural places and said that the mantra should be embrace, engage, enlighten and empower.
He also inaugurated the NITTTR Open Educational Resource (OER) today and called it a significant step in improving inclusivity through distance education, he observed that it would help the teachers in improving their knowledge base and teaching methodology.
He further stressed on the requirement to create teachers who are "learners and creators of knowledge — teachers who touch lives and seek to uplift the human condition. We need inspirational, transformational leaders in our classrooms, especially in rural India," he added.
Talking about India’s demographic dividend, he said that teachers have greater responsibility in moulding India’s huge youth population into responsible citizens.
“Education does not mean just degrees,” he added and opined that the true purpose of education is enlightenment, empowerment and wisdom. The Vice President also called upon the institutes to focus on developing a constructive and positive attitude among the students.
Referring to the National Education Policy 2020 as a visionary document, the Vice President said that it seeks to transform the education ecosystem in our country and underlines the importance of energising and motivating young faculty members. He urged teachers to adopt innovative strategies to address important national and global challenges and opportunities in an intellectually vibrant, collaborative environment.
Calling upon NITTTR to take the lead in producing outstanding teachers through well-structured and scientifically designed training programmes, he appreciated its efforts in training more than 60,000 learners in the past two years. He complimented the institute for training international participants as well under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of External Affairs.
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