A Necessary Shift in Curriculae for Technician Education Courses

With so much of erudition around the curriculae for Technician education, it does not give an identity to the Diploma passouts. Time and again the courses are labelled as mini or diluted degree courses and such statements are not far from the truth. In past, much has been stated and talked that the technicians should have their own identity on the field, in the jobs however the situation remains same as it existed before independence i.e. the diploma holders are treated as second rate engineers on the job and are deprived of vertical mobility to a great extent. The woe of most of the diploma holders in their mid carrier is that though they have capability, which they earn out of experience on the job, they can not move vertically up because they do not possess a degree.