All India Council for Technical Education’s Appellate Committee new chairman and Vice-Chancellor of Centurion University G.S.N. Raju said engineering colleges and other institutions affiliated to AICTE should give utmost priority to skill-oriented training programmes and internships.
Dr. Raju, who is also former Vice Chancellor of Andhra University, has been selected for one of the important posts of the AICTE, the highest authority to oversee the affairs of technical education in the country.
In an exclusive interview to The Hindu ahead of the beginning of the academic year, he spoke on the importance of training in digitl skills, in accordance with the guidelines of National Education Policy-2020. “The colleges that concentrate on digital skills would get more admissions,” he added.
