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| Mattoo stresses for creating knowledge economy | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 29: Jammu University’s outgoing Vice Chancellor Professor Amitabh Mattoo has advocated a five-pronged approach for making higher education easily available to the students at their respective places. This five-pronged approach which is based on adopting five E's includes Education, Employment, Economy, Enlightenment and Empowerment.
"What I believe is that through these five E's- providing education for all, creating employment for our youth, benefiting economy, enlightenment and empowerment through education -we can do wonders for our society," says Professor Mattoo.
"I believe that knowledge is power and is it is through education only that you are able to give a sense of freedom to the youth. Thus our youth will feel less disconnected from all kinds of Institutes of governance," says Professor Mattoo.
Jammu University has so far established four regional campuses in the region including Bhaderwah, Poonch, Udhampur and Kathua. The aim of setting up campuses at various parts of the state is to provide higher education to students from far-flung areas at their doorsteps.
Ask Professor Mattoo about providing education to each one of the students in their respective areas and here is what the internationally renowned strategic analyst says: "Essentially, I believe that the greatest strength of the state and its weakness are its youth. In J&K only, 30-40 lakhs of the youth are under the age of 30 and I have always believed that if properly groomed, these youth can contribute a lot in national building and they will be our greatest power."
However, what saddens the Vice chancellor is the fact that most the youth of Jammu and Kashmir are alienated lot and the real challenge now lies in creating a knowledge-based society. And this, he adds, can be done by making all these campuses of Jammu University as centers of excellence so that the university can reach out and cater to the needs of the students and youth in these far flung areas of Jammu province.
According to Professor Mattoo, it is basically like a solar system. JU's main campus is like a Sun and then there are JU campuses which have their own satellite campuses also. For example, Bhaderwah campus has its satellite at Doda and Kishtwar while Poonch has its satellite at Surankote, Kathua has its satellite at Billawar and Reasi and Ramnagar are satellites for Udhampur campus
All the Centres have started very well and the Bhaderwah campus is growing to be organized as one of the leading educational institution in the remote hill district Doda of the State. The campus was operating from hired buildings for the last two years but now has a beautiful campus which is entirely wi-fi. It offers Master's courses in Business Administration, Information technology and English besides a three-month certificate course in computers for women. The first batch of MBA students have all got placed in leading corporations demonstrating that there has been no compromise in the quality of teaching despite difficulties in operating from a "Makeshift" campus.
"Our hope is through these campuses, we'll be able to offer those programmes which will ensure hundred per cent employability. I believe there are five languages that you need to take care of for the better future of the student community. Firstly, English is important as a global lingua franca, then computers have also become very important, Mathematics is also languages of commons and then universal human values like tolerance, living together, peaceful co-existence, etc need to be taught and then there is your own mother tongue," says Professor Mattoo. |
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