Research can’t be bound in hierarchy: Javadekar at Hackathon launch
Javadekar also announced that a MOOCS platform will soon come up which will spread education far and wide into the country.
Research cannot be bound in hierarchy,
HRD minister Prakash Javadekar today said as he launched an initiative where
technology students in institutions across the country would rack their brains
to come up with solutions to problems faced by Central ministries, the first
initiative of its kind. “There can’t be research in hierarchy. Only promotions
happen in hierarchy,” Javaekar said emphasising that freedom and
inquisitiveness is needed for innovation.
He
was speaking at the launch of ‘Smart India Hackathon’ 2017, a 36-hour non stop
digital competition in which thousands of students from educational
institutions across the country would work on 500 problem statements received
from over a dozen ministries and come up with solutions.
Addressing
the students present, Javadekar said that tapping the potential of the youth is
the key and he has complete faith that they would be able to solve these
problems.
Emphasising
on the importance of innovation he said that new thinking is required and highlighted
online registration in hospitals likle AIIMS as examples. The world is changing
at an amazing pace, he said.
Javadekar,
however, rued that even when India was referred to as an “IT superpower”, it
has not come up with giants like facebook,
twitter, linkedin, Whatsaapp, google
or Windows even when some Indian must have been involved in their coming up.
Such
innovative entities should come up in India now and for this youth has to be
encouraged, the HRD minister said.
Javadekar
also announced that a MOOCS platform will soon come up which will spread
education far and wide into the country.
As
he spoke on the need for innovation, Javadekar said “after yesterday’s surgical
strike on blackmoney, social media is abuzz with innovative quips on the
issue.” AICTE chairman Anil Sahasrabuddhe said that a Hackathon which had been
organised in Pune, where students solved problems of the municipal bodies
through digital solutions had come to notice.
The
idea now is to take this concept nationwide, he said.
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Pralhad Jadhav
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