Kohima, Dec 11 (MExN): Nagaland University’s vice chancellor Prof. GD Sharma stressed on the need to improve quality education and enhance the access to it as per the national target.
“We need to review and plan our strategies to prepare a vision and road map for education and human resources development for Nagaland,” Prof. Sharma told a seminar on Vision North Eastern Region 2020 with special reference to Nagaland at the conference hall of the Nagaland Police Headquarters.
The North Eastern Council has identified education as one of its priority to develop human resource development and has established North Eastern Regional Education Council (NEREG) and has initiated to formulate the Vision NER 2020.
Nagaland has 67 per cent literacy rate but school drop out is very high. On of the reason was unavailability of trained teachers and poor infrastructure, said Prof. Sharma.
However, the experiment on communitisation of education is yielding good results in checking some of bottlenecks in imparting good education in rural areas of Nagaland. Before the introduction of normal education in Nagaland, it was a well organized informal education system to prepare the youths for holistic development and to serve the society in better way and enrich the traditions, culture and value system.
Prof. Sharma added that in modern globalize age, the education has completely undergone a transformation where it can no longer be confined to small tertiary and remain in isolation but has to be a part of globalize competitive knowledge society.
“In this context, I feel it pertinent for all of us that we visualize a Vision- 2020 document for Nagaland as per the needs of Naga society and develop where Naga youth talent is moulded to the world competitive with perseverance of traditional and value system of Nagaland society, “ he said.
The quality education is a great asset for the nation. It contributes to the economic development and social well being of the people, he said adding the education system has to be more dynamic to make the education relevant to Nagaland, north eastern region and to the country.
“The syllabi should also incorporate the relevant course contents to the region,” Prof. Sharma said.
He wanted the frequent revision of syllabi to make education more practical and relevant to the society with a components of training for unemployed youth, upgradation of teaching skills, tribal ethos and values and indigenous knowledge.
“A linkage between primary, secondary and to university education system, university- research institutes and industries to meet the need of the society is a need of the hour,” the vice chancellor added.
