Governor Shekhar Dutt on Tuesday held discussions with the senior officers of higher education department and Vice-Chancellors of various universities on promoting use of modern technique and communication resources to increase quality in higher education sector.
Principal Secretary to the Governor Amitabh Jain, In-charge Secretary of Higher Education Department RC Sinha, Secretary Technical Education Amit Agrawal, VC of Pt Ravishankar Shukla university Prof SK Pandey, VC, Indira Gandhi Agriculture university Dr SK Patil, VC, Chhattisgarh Ayush and Health Science university Dr GB Gupta, VC, Swami Vivekananda Technical university, Bhilai Dr BC Mal, VC, Indira Arts and Music university Dr Mandvi Singh, VC, Kushabhau Thakre Journalism university Sachhidanand Joshi, VC, Bastar university Dr NDR Chandra, VC, Surguja university Dr Bl Sharma, Bilaspur university VC Dr GD Sharma and Kamdhenu university VC Dr UK Mishra were present at the meeting.
In the meeting, Dutt said that in the present times, the technical resources have made life easy, facilitating and attractive. It is necessary that teachers of higher education should be aware of new technology, communication, science and skill and use it in their teaching work, so that it could reach more and more students. Prof Arun Kumar Jain of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) lucknow, through audio-video presentation, said that with modern technology and communication resources, time that takes place in the extension of higher education and providing infrastructure to some extent. Still our country is far behind in technical skill and training in the global purview, he added.