FICCI proposes to set up National Knowledge Functional Hub

NEW DELHI: Industry body FICCI has proposed setting up of National Knowledge Functional Hub (NKFH) to engage higher educational institutions with the industry to produce quality engineering graduates and meet increasing requirement of skilled hands in the market.

"The aim of NKFH is to facilitate industry-academia connect in tier-II and tier-III institutions which are the source of bulk engineering graduates for the capital goods industry," FICCI Capital Goods Committee Chairman K Venkataramanan said at a seminar here today.

Venkataramanan recommended that each capital goods company can adopt two to three institutions in its vicinity for sustained interaction and collaboration under the proposed initiative.

He also said that the institutes should put forth proposals for collaborating with companies of their choice.

Besides to reach out to far corners of the country, he also underlined the need to create a network of institutions for disseminating lectures by leading professionals through webcasting.