| The ceramic industry is a core industry in the sense that the performance
of many other basic industries depends to a large extent on
it. Although the growth of the ceramic industry in India has been
fairly satisfactory, manpower development programme for this industry
appears to be inadequate, in spite of the fact that during the past
twentyfive years the overall growth of technical education in the
country has been quite significant. This has been attributed to the
lack of proper assessment of the needs of ceramic engineers.
There is a growing need of personnel with sound ceramic education
in order to cope with the modern highly mechanized and diversifial
ceramic industry having a high rate of technical obsolescence. Existing
facilities for ceramic education in the country are meagre. It is
high time that the requirements of technical manpower for ceramic
industry are assessed and the education programme is properly
planned and implemented so that like other major engineering disciplines,
self-reliance in ceramic personnel is achieved in a short period
of time. It is felt that there is sufficient scope for increase in the
enrolment of ceramic engineering education in the country and also
for making the educational programme challenging. It is a stupendous
task.
In the following, an attempt has been made to discuss and evaluate
some of the aspects of this problem. |
