Transformation can only be achieved by creating more employment, Says: Padma Bhushan Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog
MNIT invites Padma Bhushan Arvind Panagariya for a conference on 'A Path to Prosperous India'
23rd December, 2015, Jaipur: India's leading Technical and research institution, The Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (MNIT), today invited Padma Bhushan, Shri Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, Niti Ayog today. He addressed the conference with his valuable insights on 'A Path To Prosperous India. He highlighted specific aspects of growth and comparisons between various countries from the point of view of manufacturing, agriculture and services. He laid an open discussion with students, teachers and academicians from various institutions of the state. Alongside the discussion, the dignitaries present at the conference were, Prof Shri IK Bhat, Director, MNIT, Shri Ashok Bapna, Head- Brand Building & Documentation Center, MNIT, Padma Bhushan Shri D.R. Mehta, Founder and Chief Patron of JaipurFoot, Ms. Gurjot Kaur, Addl. Chief Secretary & Director-General, HCM RIPA, Prof. Avadhesh Khare, President, Suresh Gyan Vihar University and Prof. S.S. Gokhale, Director, LNMIIT, Jaipur.
Padmabhushan Shri Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog said, "I am delighted to be at such a valuable conference held by MNIT and I am honoured to be part of such an interaction. MNIT has ever since been the epitome of providing quality education to it's students and its is great pleasure for me to interact with such talent. My focus while providing the lecture today was to highlight various techniques that are used by countries who are world leaders across and the growth that they have achieved in just three decades. We need to compare ourselves in three most important areas which are agriculture, manufacturing and services since the major portion of our GDP till date still relies on agriculture. We are directly compared with China and we have been able to adopt various techniques which are adopted by the Chinese manufacturers in terms of economies which ideally make manufacturing easier and cheaper. We also need to focus on innovating on the services segment which will create better employment opportunities for the people of the country. All in all I would like to sum up that we have seen our country grow; and while we compare ourselves with the growth of other countries we should also start comparing ourselves to the past and what we are today. Thus transformation can only be acquired by creating employment opportunities for our own people."
Prof. IK Bhatt, Director, Malaviya National Institute of Technology said, "We are delighted to invite such an eminent personality to our campus. This conference was extremely informative for students and the academicians. We are delighted to know that many students actually clarified their concepts and factual information which was provided by Padma Bhushan Shri Arvind Panagariya. I would also be very greatful to Padma Bhushan Shri Arvind Panagariya to provide such practical knowledge which will also trigger their thought processes in looking at the broader picture on today's economic condition and the growth prospects in areas such as agriculture, services and manufacturing. We would like to invite Shri Arvind Panagariya time and again to share his valuable insights with our students."
MNIT has various Undergraduate, Post Graduate and PhD programmes. The present intake for Undergraduate programs is 785 and for Post graduate program is 745. The institute has registered about 100 new PhD scholars for the year 2015-16 and has today around 500 PhD scholars working full time in the institute.
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