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Knowledge Base in India raises Foreign Exchange reserves

New Delhi October 11, 2006

The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) has made a resolute to throw light on the pre-emptive needs of India which form the basis and lay foundation for all activities in the country. It is the need to expand our knowledge base. Moving in this direction, NKC recommended setting up web portals on 10 topics and GIS mapping of the country at an Open House Session organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

These 10 recommendations will be presented to the Government in 90 days and include setting up web portals on energy, environment, knowledge network, higher education, university reforms, intellectual property rights (IPR), agriculture, traditional knowledge, health information and issues related to plants, communicable disease and distance learning.

The concept of knowledge in India involves focusing on primary education, secondary education, distance learning and university education which has raised the measure of our Foreign Exchange reserves from $150 billion from $ 2 billion in just two decades.

“We intend to modernize these as per the needs of the 21st century, education being one little subset with the main focus on knowledge as a broader prospect" said the Chairman of NKC, Sam Pitroda.

We need people with expertise in both technical and modern areas in order to create a national knowledge network in the fields of agriculture, health, small and medium industries and traditional knowledge.

Apart from other sectors being readily considered, E-governance is the key focus area for the Commission. The Commission has already taken a decision on the need for teaching English at an early stage in schools for which the Commission needs public support and community involvement to understand and disseminate information at all levels to cultivate a strong knowledge base in the country.

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