Indian Universities Should Be In the Top League: Prez

Uttarakhand: Expressing concern over the performance of universities and lack of a dedicated cadre of management professionals, President Pranab Mukherjee noted that no Indian university figures in the list of top 200 such educational institutions in the world.

"According to an international ranking of universities, no Indian university figures among the top 200 universities of the world. Our effort must be aimed at taking Indian universities into the top league," he said.

Mukherjee was addressing the first convocation of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). The youngest of the elite institutions was founded three years back.

The present pool of competent management professionals is not enough to meet the needs of the country, he said.

A strategy is required to make the Indian industry compete successfully with the best in the world. Healthy growth of Indian business will be greatly facilitated by the availability of a competent cadre of management professionals.

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