From Our Special Correspondent
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Bengaluru, Oct 4: Higher Education Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, who is also in charge IT, BT and Skills Development, on Tuesday announced the State Government’s decision to establish a Centre for Excellence in Artificial Engineering (AI) and Data Engineering in Hubballi.
He was addressing the ‘Innovation and Impact’ programme organized by the Department of Electronics, IT/BT and S&T under ‘Beyond Bengaluru’ initiative, virtually in which Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai also participated in Hubballi.
Dr Narayan said the new Centre was proposed to promote the growth of innovative industries in the Hubballi region.
The Chief Minister, in his address, said in view of emphasizing technical education among students at the high school level, there is a need to start Technology Schools in the State.
“There was a technology school in Hubballi way back in 1960 itself which was closed later. But, technology schools need to be started considering the fact that perception ability will be more during childhood,’’ Bommai said.
The Chief Minister said Atal Bihari Vajpayee' tinkering labs should be upgraded and artificial intelligence must be included at that level at least to some extent. He added, Polytechnics also need be upgraded along the lines of up-gradation of 150 I.T.I.s in the State.
Dr Narayana said the National Education Policy (NEP-2020) aspires to ready the students as per the global technological developments, and accordingly, coding will be taught for students at the school level itself.
The State Government has brought in effective policies to promote innovative technologies and the duration of the internship has risen from 3 weeks to 30 weeks.
Students will also be given opportunity to undergo internship in foreign countries, Dr Narayana explained.
Aravind Bellad, MLA, suggested focusing on developing the Hubballi cluster as a hardware manufacturing hub.
Prashanth Prakash, Chairperson, State Vision Group, pointed out, that it is suitable to start agri-tech, climate-tech, and space-tech industries in the Hubballi cluster.
B VNaidu, Chairperson, KDEM (Karnataka Digital Economy Mission), said there should be efforts to promote indigenous manufacturing of Tablet PCs.
Dr E VRamana Reddy, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Electronics, IT/BT, Ashok S Shettar, Vice-Chancellor, KLE Technical University, Aravind Malligeri, CEO, Aechus, Dr Gudasi, Prof Mahesh, Sanjeev Gupta, Vivek Pawar, Meena Nagaraj, Director, Department of IT/BT were present.