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National Education Policy will benefit students: Dr CN Ashwathnarayan
Team Udayavani, Sep 19, 2021, 10:12 AM IST
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Chitradurga: Karnataka Minister for Higher Education, Dr CN Ashwathnarayan on Saturday said that students will benefit from the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
He was speaking during an inauguration event of a government engineering college in Chitradurga district where he was invited as a Chief Guest.
“The college will offer courses in the two most relevant branches of Automobile Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that will accommodate 60 students each. The college built at a cost of 62.80 crores has a campus of 15 acres with the state of the art infrastructure will be starting from the current academic year itself,” he said.
“Considering the growing importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in all the fields including agriculture and impetus to electric vehicles at the national and global level, the government has introduced these branches”, he explained.
Earlier this week, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had said that the state is ready to discuss the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP-2020) for primary and secondary schools in the state.
With ANI inputs
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