The need for unlearning, upskilling, and reskilling became a talking point among representatives of the government, academia, and industries during a session on ‘Skilling for the Future’ held at the Global Investors Meet 2024 (GIM 2024) in Chennai on Sunday.
“We have to embrace change. There is a transformation which is occurring in the industry. We need to keep pace with that and that is the actual challenge,” said IAS officer J. Innocent Divya, Managing Director (MD), Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation (TNSDC). She highlighted how under the Naan Mudhalvan scheme, the State government is working towards improving the skills of the youth.
Praveer Sinha, CEO and MD of Tata Power Company Limited, recalled how Tata kept reinventing itself. It was important to unlearn and relearn some important skillsets. “Individuals have to be trained and retrained so that they are good to use future technology, which actually gives us an opportunity to enhance skillsets,” he said.
V. Kamakoti, Director, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), said his institution strongly believed that interdisciplinary education was quite important. Recalling his experience from the ‘rocket factory’ at IIT-M, he said students from at least eight different discipline came together to produce four 3D-printed rocket engines.
Underlining the role of academic institutions in this regard, Prof. Kamakoti said they had to create a good foundation and a very good core understanding of engineering or any other discipline. He urged the youth to learn how to use artificial intelligence, and added: “If you merge it with the parent discipline, I think you will become employable today.”
While moderating a session, Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, former CMD, Cognizant India and partner, Catalincs, said each of the five large information technology companies – TCS, Accenture, Cognizant, Infosys, and Wipro – have made more than 1,000 job offers in ..
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