Despite the efforts of various agencies of the state and central government bodies, open universities and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India is facing challenges in the field of education at various levels. “Indeed, the ultimate challenge of education is useful strong nation of one billion on an ongoing basis. A brief overview of these challenges, distance education scenario in the country, resources Crunch, etc., which are to the extent possible long-term strategies for education in the country, “says Dr. K. Kasturirangan, Chairman of ISRO.

It was the provision of the 7th Annual Meeting Pr G. Ram Reddy Memorial Lecture, organized by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou), in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning here this week.

The India hosts the one and the largest population of illiterates in the world. According to the 2001 census, there are 302 million Indians over the age of six are illiterate. Female illiteracy is higher than the 45.8 percent of rural and illiteracy is about 43 percent, he said.

“While the figures appear in the expansion itself is the challenges of quality education, the massive development of knowledge and information base led to rapidly changing needs and requirements. Regardless of that, at any level they teach all teachers must be fully equipped with rigorous intellectual and other qualities and worth of their own culture and to help learners, different events going on around them, “said Kasturirangan.

Higher education faces, other constraints such as lack of scientific equipment latest up-to-date libraries and research institutes. It is a non-availability of latest information, data, teaching techniques and the inability to interact with peers, scholars and experts, he said.

Given the challenges facing the country in education and in view of the possible use of Satcom support to education, is now also thought of launching a satellite to devote to meet the needs of the sector of Education.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is setting up a contemplation of satellites dedicated to education called `Edusat” in the near future, “he said.

A national seminar on discrete mathematics and applications “, organized by the department of mathematics at the University St. Thomas Kozhencherry place in the auditorium of the University of 9 to 11 January.

Addressing a press conference today, the head of the department of mathematics, PM Thomas, said that Mahatma Gandhi University Vice-Chancellor, Cyriac Thomas, the seminar would spend 10 hours on January 9.

Issac March Peelexinos Metropolitan opens the annual session of the Mathematical Association of Kerala.

The former director of the Institute of Mathematics, Chennai, KRUnni, Keynote address “semi domestic local products” at the opening of the session.

N. Jayasankaran, director, BIMS, Tiruchi, Prof. Abdi Memorial lecture on “Complexity Theory.”

R. Balasubramanian Chennai, M.I. Jinnah, and S. Saraswathi Amma Madhavan, classes are also on the seminar at the opening of the session of the day.

Manoj Changat the division Futuristic Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, AR Rajan, A. Parameswara Bhatta Mangalore, p. Arumugham, MS University, Tirunelveli, SSBenchalli of Dharwad, Professor N. Chandrashekharan (Tiruchi), RS and MN Chakravarthy Narayanan, both of Cusat, Kochi, take three classes day seminar.

The seminar was encouraged by the Central Bureau of higher mathematics, Mumbai, the Mahatma Gandhi University and the University of St. Thomas, “said Koshy.

He said that nearly 150 people from different parts of the country have planned to participate in this seminar on January 11.

FEB. 19 Entrepreneur of the West itself forward because of the imposition of ethical standards and can learn from their western counterparts, said PC Alexander, former governor of the province of Maharashtra.

It was the availability of K.C. Mappilla mothers Memorial Lecture on “Value-based governance”, organised by Bodhananda Research Foundation for Management and Leadership Studies (BFR-ML), Thiruvananthapuram, here and now.

Effrénées of corruption in the public service, “said Dr Alexander. Intimidation of voters and election coverage booths are a common feature in most parts of the nation.

Company agrees those who raise social wealth as a leader, regardless of how she was rich. Because of this perversion of social values, corruption reigns in our society, “said Dr Alexander. Even if we have high standards for values in our personal lives, it is not the case, where our social life, “he added.

This is the vision and the future of research Mappila moms who remains well ahead of his time, “said Dr Alexander.

In his presidential address, Bodhananda Saraswati founder FGA-ML, said the lecture series was held on values in administration, education and the economy. That was part of the series of conferences organized by BFR-ML in three main cities of the federal state.

Muni Narayana Prasad provided the Sree Narayana Guru Memorial Lecture on “spirituality, culture and life values for a society of growth,” the 15 Kozhikode K. Kasturirangan January and the United Kingdom has provided Krishna Menon Memorial Lecture on “Science, technology and social change” in Thiruvananthapuram on 5 February.

PR Wilson, director of the School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology; RC Suresh, director Mohammed Al Sahen Group of Companies, Kuwait and Chairman and Managing Director of Golden Fries Limited, Coimbatore and Dinesh Nirmala, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer ITAS Info Engineering Private Limited, Info Park, Kochi spoke on the occasion. A.K.K. Nair, chairman of the BFR-ML welcomed the gathering and PN Subramanian, managing director of the BFR-ML, proposed the vote of thanks.

THALASSERY, FEB. 14 The chairman of the Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd and Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, AC Muthiah, called for effective cooperation between industry, researchers from academia and student at the Community of product development and innovative ideas, Global Marketing.

Time, the first A.K. Kaderkutty Memorial lecture on “Leadership change in the scenario - India in search of world leaders” organized by the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Kannur University, here today, “said Muthiah that universities network with several organizations, an important source of knowledge. “ The universities to transform them into “centres of excellence” start the Livestock human beings intrinsic ingenuity, as a leader in the world.”

Prices monument to the memory of the late founder of the Western India Plywoods Ltd (WIPL) by researchers, entrepreneurs and students.

The assertion that there is now India the series to present itself, “said Dr Muthiah lower interest rates, growing population of youth and the emergence of multinational companies at home has been developed for signs of a rapid transformation of the country in a modern economy. “ During all goes right for the country, what we need most today are world leaders Who can creative minds,”he said.

He said that the work of reform, ushering in the art semi-urban and rural areas and in the use of force in manufacturing and services sector were the challenges facing the country.

Relying on international issues “Clean - Lean - Green: Innovative solutions for the global community Coatings,” CTSF was a record year for the number of entries for the prestigious technical program - Future Coat! More than 100 events at the Conference for 3-5 October, in conjunction with ICE 2007. Thus, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ont. Canada, Future Coat! While most innovative methods and applications of the future of the environment varnish.

As part of planning for the future 2007 Coat! Committee, the intensive three-day stood at several tracks. Are the highlights-Keynote Address by John C. Warner, director of the Center for Ecological Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and technical courses Focus, Rigoberto Advincula, Associate Professor at the University of Houston. The high end is Mattiello Memorial Lecture Gordon P. Bierwagen, Professor, Department of Coatings and polymer materials, North Dakota State University. Also offered for the first time on Future Coat! If Mattiello a symposium focusing on key areas of Professor Bierwagen work.

Dec. 22 - CHENNAI, India - The exchange ratio for the merger of IDBI and IDBI Bank to be decided at the beginning of January, IDBI Chairman and Managing Director M Damodaran said here Tuesday.

Mr. CMD Damodaran said that the merger was probably easier when he was in charge of the ICICI-ICICI Bank, because IDBI had converted into a bank. “A merger between the two banks to go by the RBI. IDBI If a term has been a financial institution, the merger would have had to go through two high courts,” he said.

Commenting on Ting assets Gestressten the Stabilization Fund (SASF), “said Damodaran benefits for IDBI would be an amount of Rs 750 crore, the fact that the amount would be if the provisions for bad loans remained in its books.

In addition to the assets were transferred, without loss of IDBI, he said. “In the reconstruction of the asset deal, if you are lucky, you will receive 20 cents per dollar. In this case, we have a 100 rupee a later date,” he said.

According to the government’s bailout scheme SASF, a goal of the company, took IDBI loans worth Rs 9000 crore in exchange for the central government bonds without interest.

Mr. Damodaran was in the city from the Presidency on the GL Mehta Memorial Lecture organized by the Institute of Financial Management and Research. Meghnad Desai, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, provided at the conference.

Mr. Desai, said of globalization has benefited more than Asia to the United States and Western European countries. The United States has reacted to the removal of the capital, designed for the United Nations Development, a liberal immigration policy.

Western European countries, except the United Kingdom, were more reticent with regard to immigrant workers, to the detriment of economic growth. Asia, he said, would have been a liberal immigration policy.

The issue of employment, diet, Mr. Desai said that it is a bad idea. Emphasis should be placed on the generation of employment arising from the investment in infrastructure, instead of secure jobs, he added.

Chennai, Dec. 21 - IT is not a good idea, a country of foreign exchange reserves, feels Lord Meghnad Desai, an economist and director of the Center for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics.

Lord Desai said in response to a question from the mobilization of GL Mehta Memorial Lecture organized by the Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR). He said that the use of forex reserves would lead to what the central bank to offset the inflationary effects of such a movement, which could have an impact on the monetary aspects of the economy.

He was also sceptical, the regime of guaranteed employment with the government. He said that the Government will facilitate the role, it is appropriate that the generation of employment, not guarantee. That should be the creation of infrastructure. “People find it more cost effective to treat people,” he said.

Regarding the theme “Europe, Asia and the United States in the global economy,” said Lord Desai, that for the first time in 20 years, developed countries felt threatened by countries Developing. He said that the new world economic scene has been very positive for developing countries, especially in Asia. by 2050, he said, the share of the combined GDP of China and India in global production would be consistent with their share of the world population.

Lord Desai noted that the United States had done a good job, so that qualified people contact, their country and their contribution to economic growth. Continental Europe, however, was closed. But while a lot of talent, from Asia to the United States, Asia, there has been very little opening. Lord Desai noted that there was no reason why Malaysia should not have people from China, the Philippines and India are working on the economy.

In the scenario, emerging economies, competition between the United States and Asia, while Europe seems to rest on its laurels, “said Lord Desai. Europeans had a preference for the simple life, with fewer hours of work. The world moves from the Atlantic to the Pacific, he said.

Lord Desai said that India is of paramount importance had lost, 13 years after China by opening its economy too late. It was a time when the world economy was opened, was born in the “Asian tigers”. But India is the possibility of losing.

He said that the first 30 odd years, the post-independence of the Indian economy was at the root of poverty to growth, despite the rhetoric “pro poor.”

Chennai, Aug. 20 - CHENNAI, it is not on the major leagues in information technology, but a few fundamental issues such as water supply and the quality of education are discussed, the Kingdom - Uni said Raman, CEO, Global Outsourcing Realties (GRO).

The city has had a problem of water there is also the past, but today is a serious problem.

The training curricula in the country, and throughout the country, as a rule, still 17 chapters and 18 speak Century, which are less important for the present generation, he said.

According to Mr. Raman, GRO, a Business Process Outsourcing company, visited several schools in Tamil Nadu, to recruit graduates for the company.

Among the graduates of 1300, companies can only 15-17.

Educational institutions should be coordinated with the industry and the professional skills of students, he said at the Annual Memorial Lecture Srikanth here Friday.

Satyam Computer Services Ltd and the Institute of Financial Management and Research of the ceremony for the presentation Srikanth Ananthanarayanan, was a collaborator and consultant to a past Satyam analysts in The Hindu Business Line.

Mr K. Jayaramakrishnan, vice president, Tata Consultancy Services, Tamil Nadu, said that the main advantage of the presence of 265 engineering colleges.

There should be more interaction between industry and science to the other requirements.

Unlike Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, small cities like Kumbakonam are also coming upin services in the area.

In Kumbakonam, an accounting plan on the establishment of BPO, “said Jayaramakrishnan.

In his statement, Mr. D. Sampathkumar, Associate Editor, The Hindu Business Line, so that the city could not claim an exclusive benefit. Problems such as lack of water and lack of supply of electricity, each big city.