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Engineering Education in India
Challenges for the
Twenty-First Century
N. C. Shivaprakash
INTRODUCTION
Higher education has been in the spotlight recently in several countries for its current and potential
role in economic and social development. In the case of India, the Knowledge Commission has
articulated the concerns and outlined the strategies that can, among other things, help to build
excellence in educational system to meet the knowledge challenges of the 21st century and increase
India’s competitive advantage in the eld of knowledge. Education is the cumulated heaps of dis-
coveries. The primary objective of the higher education is ...