Jammu has potential to emerge as Integrated Education Model: Dr Jitendra

Jammu, Aug 28 : Asserting that with different kind of higher education institutions coming up within close vicinity of each other and catering to diverse specializations and streams of academics, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that Jammu has the potential to emerge as a distinct Integrated Education Model, which can also be emulated in other parts of the country.
Speaking as chief guest, during the signing of Multipartite MoU among AIIMS Jammu, IIT Jammu, IIM Jammu and University of Jammu here, the Minister described it as a landmark occasion which is indeed the “Rise of a Rare Quaternary” bringing together Medical Science, Engineering Technology, Management Skills and Varied Specialised Disciplines on the same platform.
He said, this is a unique and perhaps a rare model of its kind, which has the capacity to be developed and extended further.
However, referring to the New Industrial Policy for Jammu and Kashmir as brought out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Dr Singh disclosed that on August 31, Home Minister Amit Shah is going to launch a Web Portal for Registration of Units under the “New Central Scheme” for Industrial development of J&K.
“This will also be optimally useful only through an integrated approach if we are able to integrate the academic institutions with industry, Start-Ups, private sector, etc,” he said.
Dr Singh suggested that the coming together of the four education institutions of Jammu should pave the way for wider coordination through similar coordination with other remaining institutions like the Central University Jammu which has North India’s first Space Technology/ISRO teaching department, Government Medical College Jammu, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) Jammu which is today India’s leading research centre in aromatic and herbal products as well as medicines, North India’s first Biotech Park at Kathua catering to research, revenue and livelihood, Indian Institute of Mass Communication Jammu which has the capacity to contribute the digital communication components, so on and so forth.
He said, “as India evolves into a frontline nation in the world community, the current “Mantra” of success would be to pull out all the academic faculties from Silos and integrate them for meaningful and cost-effective outcomes.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Dr Singh, has always insisted on such an integrated approach and on his advice we have successfully followed it in different areas.
He said, since he is dealing with nearly 8 to 10 departments in the Government of India, he has tried to bring all of them under the same umbrella and the results have been miraculous.
Citing the example of the recent Pandemic, Dr Jitendra Singh said, he realized that almost every Department, Ministry or Agency had launched a project on COVID because it fetched visibility, media attraction and also funds.

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