Second West Bengal State Conference of Technical Education

The inaugural session started on October 4, 2002 at 10 a.m. and was presided over by Prof. Dr. M. Bhattacharyya, President, The Association of Engineers, India. Welcome address was given by Prof. Dr. R. N. Banerjee, Chairman, WBCS, IE(I) followed by the theme Speaker Dr. N. R. Banerjea, Organising Seecretary, The Association of Engineers and Working President, FOSET; he highlighted on what context so many Organisations had joined hands to organising the Conference. "Within a few years so many engineering Colleges, degree and diploma levels, have already come up in W.B. and more are in the pipeline ie there has been sudden expansion of technical institutes. It is our duty to formulate a perspective plan for technical education for this century with a view to maintaining the quality of technical education and seeing that the core engineering areas are not neglected in the face of clamour for IT related euphobia". Dr. Banerjea observed.