Government launches smart board for smart classroom for tech education

Launching of statewide interactive smart board for smart classroom for technical education institutions in Kohima on March 10. (Morung Photo)

Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 10

The state’s department of technical education today launched the “Statewide Interactive Smart Board for Smart Classroom" for technical education institutions at Government Polytechnic, Kohima.

It was officially launched by Professor Anil D Saharasbudhe, chairman, All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi in the presence of Temjen Imna Along, Minister of Higher & Technical Education and Tribal Affairs, Nagaland.

Speaking on the occasion, Temjen stated that no amount of technology or providence of funds or teachings and learning will really be successful if we are not passionate and if we do not bring ourselves beyond our level of depression, frustration or circumstances.

 “It is the passion that you need but it is saddening to see that we do not take things very seriously”, he commented.

He cited that empowering the weak, uplifting the poor, reaching out with the best possible technology and to be able to use them and to make them available for better human structuring in life has been the endeavor of every human being.

Temjen mentioned that unless we understand to perceive and look out for something that is different, all the efforts that we are making “is just normal.”

The knowledge that you get from books are limited but your mind is unlimited and the most important effort of a polytechnic is in itself to make our mind limitless and to make the way you perceive things and you do into limitless, he cited.

“Our society has become non-innovative because of fear of change”, he stated and challenged the students to believe in their goals.

"Believe in your goals, do not wait for somebody to come and push you from behind, or ask you to think something different. If you are challenged by yourself, nobody can pull you down," he said.

The Minister urged the students of Government Polytechnic Kohima and Khelhoshe Polytechnic to believe that they can have an institution that is of world class standard, and added that the institution has to be built out of the hard work and sincerity of its students, and not only through its infrastructure, asserting that people tends to forget that it is the hardworking students, the faculty and the people itself who are the bases, on which good institutions has to be built.

He further asserted that state has to stop thriving on the idea based on unionism and clanism, and start building a strong Nagaland with “our sheer hard work.”

The Minister appreciated the Department of Fashion Technology of Government Polytechnic Kohima,  on the commendable jobs they have been doing so far and further lauded the latest innovative wooden car that was recently developed by Khelhoshe Polytechnic students, which he said depicted that “we can start to believe we can do well, given the right platform."

Hoping to see a robust Nagaland, which is self sufficient, organic, carbon neutral, he said that “we need to start believing that we can do better than what we are doing now."

Our education at the school level should be so good that coaching and tuitions should not be required, said Anil D Sahasrabudhe, chairman of AICTE while speaking at the event.

He mentioned that technical education will be able to save the society in a better way by creating awareness and making the life of the people easier as society faces lots of challenges and difficulties.

He asserted that the entire technical education system in North East needs to be thoroughly geared up.

Sahasrabudhe claimed that our curriculum has not been upgraded to the level that the industries expected. “We are in the 21st century, but students are being taught the same things that were taught in the 19th  century,” he commented and asserted that constant and continuous curriculum revision is one of the most significant thing which is needed both for higher education in terms of engineering, architecture, as well as polytechnics. 

Arjun Singh, Director of Technical education, Nagaland highlighted that the department is working on improving quality education.

He stated that since Nagaland does not have a single engineering institute, it is the desire of the state government to upgrade KPA to degree engineering college.”

“It is our endeavor and desire of the department to at least upgrade the 2 existing polytechnics namely Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu and Government Polytechnic Kohima to engineering college”, he said.

The launching programme and the one day-seminar was organized by AICTE, New Delhi on Higher Education, Reforms and Initiatives, New Schemes for NER under the theme “Empowering through Digital Technology”.