Morung Express News
Kohima | August 12
Education is the gateway to prosperity but due to lack of opportunity in the state, there is huge brain drain from the state.
Many well-educated Nagas cannot come back and contribute to the state due to the poor economic opportunity in the state,” Governor PB Acharya told the gathering recalling his meeting with Naga scholars in New Delhi during the Editor’s Meet, organised at Raj Bhavan on August 10.
Alluding to the recent statement by the President that Ram Nath Kovind that the best scientific universities and institutions of learning are not “just teaching shops or degree factories” but sources of innovation and incubators of technology, the Governor called for enhancing the university system in the state.
There is no dialogue between corporate, business and education. As a result, most institutions exist to “train clerks,” he noted.
To this end he called for instilling and incorporating skill development in varsities’ curricula and syllabuses. Acharya also argued that Fashion designing and tourism as skill development is a “fraud.”
Nagas are inherently fashionable. Teach them other skills, he argued.
The notion that the Nagas cannot make this should change. “Change this mind-set,” he added.
