Assam Governor urges technical institutes to admit more female students

Guwahati: The Governor of Assam Gulab Chand Kataria has advised technical institutes to encourage admission of more female students as the number of females taking admissions in such courses is fewer than males.

The Governor was speaking at the 6th convocation of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Guwahati, on Friday, where he pointed out technical educational institutes have a lower girls’ enrolment rate than that conventional studies.

He urged the authorities of these institutes to find ways to encourage more girls to join the technical courses.

Girls have demonstrated their capability in every field, and providing them with proper opportunities would be the right way to empower them, Kataria said.

The Governor also said that in terms of skill development educational institutes play a major role and information technology is used in almost every field to increase the convenience of modern life.

Kataria said that today India has assumed a leading role in the field of information technology globally.

Also present at the occasion were, the former director of IIT-Kharagpur Prof. Partha Pratim Chakraborty, chairman of the board of governors of IIIT-Guwahati Satyavrat Dev, and director of IIIT-Guwahati Prof. Sharat Kumar Patra.

Altogether 227 students were awarded graduate and post-graduate degrees on the occasion, which included 177 B Tech, 41 M Tech and 9 PhDs, a Raj Bhawan release said.