New Delhi, Jul 16 (UNI) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that Jammu has emerged as an education hub in North India with the establishment of an Indian Institute of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, All India Institutes of Medical Science (AIIMS) there.
While e-inaugurating a five-day orientation program at Indian Institute of Management, Jammu for the fifth batch of MBA and first batch of PhD Program, he said that IIM, Jammu is one of the major achievements of the Government of India led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the education sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
Giving an insight into the development and particularly educational boost brought about in the last six years in Jammu alone, the Minister said that the up gradation of Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, National Institute of High Altitude Medicine coming up at Bhaderwah, Industrial Biotech Park at Kathua besides other centrally funded institutes like 4 Government Medical Colleges, RUSA funded Engineering colleges, an Ayurvedic college, and an upcoming Homeopathic College in the Jammu province.
Dr Singh further said that with the historical constitutional changes happened after August 5, 2019 and the barriers of academic growth done away with, the best faculty from different fields from all over India are ready to come to Jammu and kashmir to serve with dedication as the previous apprehensions have gone now with the Domicile Law coming into existence. The biggest outcome of this Domicile Law would be the enrichment of academic faculty at Jammu in all the new premier institutes, he added.
Speaking during the inauguration, the Union Minister further said that India is on the verge of becoming a global manufacturing and IT hub and our research outputs and research inferences of the Department of Space are now being procured by some of the premier world institutes like NASA of US which shows the kind of credibility and supremacy this country has already established.
“ISRO is going to have a Human Spaceflight Mission Gaganyaan very soon and in the Post Covid19 era, India is going to have a similar kind of resurgence as far as the economy is concerned”, Dr Singh said.
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