Stressing on the importance of youth getting technical education and developing entrepreneurial skills, Higher Education Minister M.C. Sudhakar said that his government was committed to changing the State’s education policy so as to make it provide required technical education and develop entrepreneurship among the students.
“We want to include technical education in higher education and empower our students with technical skills so that they can easily get jobs. The modification of curriculum for higher education so as to realise this objective is on the pipeline,” Mr. Sudhakar said after laying foundation stones to Government Polytechnic College and Government First Grade Degree College at Aland town in Kalaburagi district on Wednesday.
Terming Article 371(J) of the Constitution that provided Kalyana Karnataka region with a Special Status as a “game changer”, Mr. Sudhakar said that the Polytechnic College which was sanctioned by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in his previous term did not take off owing to the change of government in the State.
