Present Scenario of Engineering Education in India, with Special Reference to Private Sector Participation

The theme for the Conference this year is "Private Sector Participation in the Technical Education and its Implications." At a time when we realise that education in general and science and Technical education in particular ~old the key for development of any nation, when the Government are insisting on aided educational institutions raising resources for meeting a meaningful part of their maintenance expenditure, when- the Government policy is liberalisation of the economy, offering scope for the individual and I collective initiative of the members of the public, a discussion of the merits and demerits of the participation of the private sector in technical education is; relevant and topical. I shall touch upon this theme briefly later in my address.