Nadeem Nadu
Jammu, April 28: G N Itoo has been appointed as the new Director School Education Kashmir (DSEK) in today’s cabinet meeting.
He has done PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has been confirmed as Gold Medalist at Aligarh Muslim University.
Itoo said, “His first priority will be academics, infrastructure development and accountability. Education holds the key to economic growth, social transformation, modernization and national integration. The goal of quality research can be achieved through establishment of quality research infrastructure”.
The transformation of our schools, colleges and universities into innovative hubs is possible if proper scientific infrastructure facility is put in place that will at least increase motivation towards new discoveries and inventions.
He said that his main aim is promotion of a national, a sense of common citizenship and composite culture and strengthening national integration. He lays stress on the need for a radical transformation of the education system to improve its quality at all stages and gives much greater attention to Science and Technology.
Our state (J&K) is least developed state with reference to scientific innovation. We are still lagging behind in many key indicators of technological advancement due to fault in our lower and higher education system. Our education system is producing graduates with theory (or rote memory) based knowledge, but is unable to produce innovative human resource who will be compatible with the advanced societies. The establishment of new universities or institutions cannot fetch results if we don’t have clear vision about our future. The ambition of transforming the potential of youth for new challenge is possible only if our system slowly changes theoretical knowledge into practical or productive knowledge that will at least help the young aspirants to search their job opportunity anywhere in the globe. Attracting youngsters towards innovation and research should be one of the goals of the state policy in next 10-20 years. However, this task is not so easy as we are plagued with numerous hurdles to accomplish this overarching aim, he said.
Itoo said, “In this hi-tech era only those nations or societies will lead the competitive world who will show willingness to adapt to the new emerging demands. Needless to say we are the part of hi-tech society that is dominated by cutting edge innovations. However, there is still a major gap between developed and developing countries vis-à-vis technological and scientific progress partly due to paucity of productive human resource in less advanced countries”.
Innovation in research is necessary for avoiding the trivialization and stagnation of the real potential of young researchers in our state. The process of innovation includes sensitizing new researchers how to discover, create, and develop ideas; how to polish them into productive forms and finally how to use them to earn profit. However, it is important to understand that creating new inventions or ideas does not always mean the beginning of innovation; it is actually sustenance or transformation of these ideas into productive forms, he added further.
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