‘INDUSTRY, ACADEMIA MUST JOIN HANDS’

CHANDIGARH: In a bid to boost collaboration between industry and academia, the technical education and industrial training department organised the firstever edition of Industry Academia Meet 2022.

Principal secretary, technical education, Rahul Bhandari, who chaired the meet, said the initiative will go a long way in imparting technical education to help bridge the skill gap and upskilling youth so that they can be gainfully employed.

Technical education director DPS Kharbanda said to create an employable workforce, industry and academia have to join hands so that the obsolete courses and curricula are replaced with content in accordance to the needs of the industry. The meeting was attended by top representatives of more than 50 industrial associations and industrialists.