Get Smart, Kalam tells students
Pune: President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Department of Defense to develop a facilitation policy for at least 50 percent of students of the armed forces working in the field of research and development (R & D) to serve for three years.
Kalam said that such markets ahead, it is necessary that students complete high-end courses such as defence institutes Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Defence Advanced Institute of Technology (DIAT).
The president was at the first convocation ceremony of the DIAT on Girinagar, about 15 kilometres to the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Pune, Thursday.
During his 30-minute speech on the theme “Education Research Research ‘, Kalam unfolds not only his vision of a” good education model “promotion of students, in defense of R & D, but also Under the “roadmap” for institutions Like DIAT to follow.
He urged institutions to incorporate into their course of the entire experiment equipment, such as Indian scientists and worked on governance and technological challenges in the framework of projects such as Agni, the fire and aircraft Combat (LCA).
“Students need to find innovative ways to assess progress in the development of their work, rather than simply fighting to non-availability of certain facilities. Power of the scientific team from the defeat of all denials of the nation, “he said.
Kalam identified research and demand, creativity and innovation, use of high technology and the evaluation of the quality and management of user interfaces such services as the five core competencies necessary institutions like DIAT.
He observed that the needs DIAT absorb the spirit of “we can do it”, the students, so that, if put in place by their parents, they have two great qualities: confidence in the conceptions of indigenous capacity and promoting self-reliance in military technology.
“Since 2007, every year at least 10 students should also participate in doctoral programs DIAT for research in various fields of defence, technology demanding,” he said.
Step by step, DIAT must be at least 20 per cent of students directly in higher education, 20 per cent of the DRDO, and 60 percent of the armed forces.