A STUDY TO EXAMINE THE OBJECTIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN WEST BENGAL BY THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

by debaprayag chaudhuri
(Kolkata, west bengal, india)

Abstract:-

Technical education as a specific programme for the training of supervisory personnel in the industrial manpower team has received attention of the successive government of India.

This study investigates the development of technician education relevant to the industry at West Bengal.

Education as an open organization system was adopted as the theoretical framework for the study.

The investigation is organized into components of inputs, implementation process and output related issues of the system.

The final recommendations also are patterned on the systems sequence.

The National Policy on Education (NPE), which was adopted by Parliament in May 1986, was later reviewed in 1990.

On the basis of the recommendations of the Committee that reviewed NPE, certain provisions of the 1986 policy were modified in 1992.

NPE observed that ‘the country has reached a stage in its economic and technical development when a major effort must be made to derive the maximum benefit from the assets already created and to ensure that the fruits of change reach all sections.

Education is the highway to that goal’. ‘Education is a unique investment in the present and the future.’


To be reinvigorate and add force to NPE, the Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh, in November 2006, urged the Chief Ministers to initiate urgent policies and programmes so that the intake capacity in technical education institutions in relation to the State’s population comes on par with the national average, and their youth are “able to adequately benefit from the opportunities which are becoming available due to our fast-growing economy”.

Among the corrective steps suggested by Shri Arjun Singh to the Chief Ministers to address the deficiencies are:

1 Establishment of new institutions, especially in backward areas,

2 Expansion of intake in existing institutions,

3 Opening new branches and courses, especially in emerging areas,

4 Grant of incentives for establishment of bona-fide non-government institutions of good quality and non commercial nature,

5 Programme of quality improvement of technical education, and

The study however indicates an imbalance in the system resulted by the over supply of engineers in relation to technicians and craftsmen.


By: debaprayag chaudhuri,
Kolkata, west bengal, india