Our Correspondent
Kohima | May 6
Higher education in Nagaland by year 2020 would be technology-driven, and focus on the growing scientific temperament in the youths of Nagaland. This was stated in “Nagaland 2020- A Vision” of the Nagaland State Human Development Report 2004. The report said the establishment of Nagaland University has strengthened higher education. “It is taking on new directions as a nodal centre for the functioning of higher educational institutions and putting in place a qualitative benchmark,” the report said.
It was also mentioned that there was ‘skewed distribution’ of colleges in the various districts today. This pattern would be reversed by appropriate government and private sector interventions prompted by the needs of emerging trends. According to the report, not only would the existing infrastructural development in the schools and colleges need to be upgraded but a number of technical colleges in the fields of medicine, engineering, management, IT and so on would also be created.
The report said specialty and super-specialty aspects in various fields should also emerge in the form of research institutes and technical training centers. Products from such institutions would be geared to meet the emergent needs of the growing economy, the report observed.
“Some of the colleges of repute in the state would start collaboration with renowned institutions, both domestic and international, and would become centres of excellence catering to high degree of research,” the report said. The agriculture college at Medziphema is also envisaged to become a university of agriculture with specialization in hill and mountain terrain agriculture.
Further, polytechnics would become busy institutes to meeting the burgeoning demands of ever-growing industries. Management institutes in the private sector would be established in collaboration with leading industrial houses, it said. “With its tremendous wealth of biodiversity Nagaland would command world interest. Biological research centres would emerge, laying the foundation of bio-technology and other cutting edge scientific technologies,” the report added.
