Education Key To India's Next Golden Age: President Pranab Mukherjee

Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 02:07 IST
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New Delhi: Education is what will determine how fast India joins the ranks of leading nations of the world, said President Pranab Mukherjee.



"I believe education is the alchemy that can bring India its next golden age," Mukherjee said in his address at the valedictory session of the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the annual gathering of the Indian diaspora.



"The success we achieve in educating our people will determine how fast India joins the ranks of leading nations of the world," he said.



Mukherjee said that if India has to attain a growth rate of nine percent per year, as has been envisaged during the 12th Five Year Plan period, "we must put in place enabling factors, most prominent of which is education".



He pointed out that no Indian from India has won the Nobel Prize since C.V. Raman in 1930, and said educational institutes in the country should focus more on research and development.



"I have been urging our educational institutions to invest more in research and development and to pursue greater international linkages by establishing collaborations with foreign universities and inviting the best of faculty from across the world to come and teach in our institutions," the president said.
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Source: IANS
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