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Decreasing number of skilled workers is limiting growth in civil aviation
by Bipin Shah Self Employed
Bipin Shah 
Self Employed
The aviation, nuclear technology and defence sectors, is expected to see an enormous growth in the coming years. However, the decreasing number of skilled professionals will hamper its growth, said a panel of experts during a discussion on IT applications in frontier technologies at the Bangalore IT.Biz 2010.
?The Indian Air Force (IAF) is short of 700 trained pilots. Now, t is acquiring 126 more fighter planes and 100 helicopters. But, where are the pilots for these new fighters? A similar situation prevails in the area of nuclear science,? said Sridhar Nadupali, managing director, Sankhya.
?The civil aviation industry which will be seeing a huge expansion will require 2,000 more pilots and 10,000 maintenance staff. Fulfilling these requirements will be difficult for the industry, which is already understaffed,? he added.
He pointed out that lack of training in IT services related to these fields, is leading to scarcity of manpower. ?When we compare ourselves with China, it produces 1.9 million skilled workforce from 1,700 polytechnics, whereas we have only 0.2 million passing out from our 300 polytechnics, most of whom are semi-skilled. The perfect example for this is the fact that while China developed 15 indigenous engines in 40 years, India developed just one,? added Nadupali.
He also added that with multi-million dollar deals coming to India, the requirement for workforce will increase further and if we are not prepared for the same, we will not be able to deliver as per expectations.
?India has to produce 1.25 million worth jobs in order to accommodate the offsets, following absorption of Rs45,000 crore worth investments in India. We should be able to give more importance to providing quality training to more people in the country,? he said.
Dr Vipin Chaudhary, chief executive officer of Computational Research Laboratories Limited, said that India has a long way to go in order to provide the right computing solutions to various developments in fields of aviation and defence.
Speaking on the issue of IT services for homeland security, Naval Khosla, programme manager, IBM India Software Labs said that IT can play a huge role in the areas of intelligence, emergency response and prevention.
Oct 30th 2010 06:43
Self EmployedThe aviation, nuclear technology and defence sectors, is expected to see an enormous growth in the coming years. However, the decreasing number of skilled professionals will hamper its growth, said a panel of experts during a discussion on IT applications in frontier technologies at the Bangalore IT.Biz 2010.
?The Indian Air Force (IAF) is short of 700 trained pilots. Now, t is acquiring 126 more fighter planes and 100 helicopters. But, where are the pilots for these new fighters? A similar situation prevails in the area of nuclear science,? said Sridhar Nadupali, managing director, Sankhya.
?The civil aviation industry which will be seeing a huge expansion will require 2,000 more pilots and 10,000 maintenance staff. Fulfilling these requirements will be difficult for the industry, which is already understaffed,? he added.
He pointed out that lack of training in IT services related to these fields, is leading to scarcity of manpower. ?When we compare ourselves with China, it produces 1.9 million skilled workforce from 1,700 polytechnics, whereas we have only 0.2 million passing out from our 300 polytechnics, most of whom are semi-skilled. The perfect example for this is the fact that while China developed 15 indigenous engines in 40 years, India developed just one,? added Nadupali.
He also added that with multi-million dollar deals coming to India, the requirement for workforce will increase further and if we are not prepared for the same, we will not be able to deliver as per expectations.
?India has to produce 1.25 million worth jobs in order to accommodate the offsets, following absorption of Rs45,000 crore worth investments in India. We should be able to give more importance to providing quality training to more people in the country,? he said.
Dr Vipin Chaudhary, chief executive officer of Computational Research Laboratories Limited, said that India has a long way to go in order to provide the right computing solutions to various developments in fields of aviation and defence.
Speaking on the issue of IT services for homeland security, Naval Khosla, programme manager, IBM India Software Labs said that IT can play a huge role in the areas of intelligence, emergency response and prevention.
Oct 30th 2010 06:43
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