DTE comes up with five point revamp plan for tech edn

Dr Abhay Wagh



By Vikas Vaidya

The condition of technical education is in jeopardy and if targeted changes are not incorporated then it would become worst. The technical institutes are facing problems of vacancies, rising lack of employability among students, falling standard of education, untrained staff etc. Considering these aspects, Dr Abhay Wagh, Director of Technical Education, Maharashtra has decided to implement five point revamp plan in technical education to bring it up and should meet the global standards.
“When I took over as Director many things came to my mind to be implemented in technical education for its quality improvement. I chalked out most important five points on which I shall be emphasizing more. They include perspective plan, curriculum that includes industry internship, training the staff, employability, incubation centre,” Dr Wagh unveiled his own plans while talking to ‘The Hitavada’ at Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management (RCOEM) after the workshop on industry-institute organised by DTE.
Perspective plan to meet supply-demand ratio
“We can not bring quality if the volume is unnecessarily large. We have so many technical institutions and the number is odd. It was never thought whether we need so many colleges or not. The demand and supply ratio need to be taken into account. For example, in Nagpur how many students opt technical courses, if the number is 15,000 then why do we need 23,000 seats here? Secondly, we should encourage students to take those courses which have regional connection. The boy of Vidarbha if encouraged to go for Textile engineering he could easily get employment because this region is cotton growing one. So, while preparing perspective plan these needs would be incorporated,” said Dr Abhay Wagh.
Dr Wagh feels if the demand and supply ratio is focused then automatically the seats will be reduced and the vacancy issue would be resolved. He said, “I am happily signing the closure applications of courses, colleges. See, how smartly the MBA people worked. They reduced their additional intake and now no seat remained vacant in that course.” In 2015, being  Director of Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE) Dr Wagh had submitted a report about erring polytechnics and DTE compelled to crack down 16 polytechnics by disqualifying them.
Curriculum with industry aspects
Another aspect of quality is curriculum. The universities have not changed the curriculum years together. Dr Wagh said that he would be taking up this issue with the universities and accommodate changes that could cater to the global needs. “Our curriculum must have industry aspect else it would fail to deliver. My student when put a step in any industry he should have all qualities of good employee. The industry-institute linkage will play important role,” pointed out Dr Wagh.
I-curriculum in Polytechnics
“In post HSC Diploma institutes (polytechnic) we have implemented industry internship from June 1, wherein the students when enter into fifth semester he would be sent to any industry where he would work as a full time employee. Same thing we would bring in engineering also,” informed Dr Wagh. At present the internship aspect is present in Textile diploma course only. Dr Wagh calls inclusion of industry internship in polytechnic as I-curriculum which is his brainchild and he feels that it would resolve the vacancy problem.
DTE has already started staff training also so as to groom them to teach finer nuances to students that would imbibe broader aspects of technical education into students’ minds.
“I have an ambitious plan for ‘Incubation center’. Such centre provides a whole new start-up ecosystem for the young entrepreneur. I want my students to come up with their own start up, they should become entrepreneur. We have talent but it was never tapped. We want to make our students employable. They should be trained with communication skill, personality development along with their interaction with industry,” said Dr Wagh.

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