Science and Technology Education under LEP: Should India Set the Focus on NEI to Zoom OUT or

1. This presentation file would be downloadable: http://ugc-inno-nehu.com/LEP.ppt Science and Technology Education under LEP: Should India Set the Focus on NEI to Zoom OUT or Get the Rays From the East Without the NEI Gateway? Can North East India have the similarities to the South East Asian Nations? S. Aravamudhan North Eastern Hill University Inboxnehu_sa@yahoo.com The sustainable growth and development requires the appropriate Technology Transfer so that the manufacturing sector in the South East Asia become independent and gain the skills well enough to manufacture finished goods from the resources available in the respective countries more for their benefit than for others. What would be the role for North East India? Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

2. E W http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asia-map.png Map: Look East policy Literally could mean…. X For such a flow of trade benefit, the North Eastern States are merely transit bases. May earn a rent for letting the transit station function in the Region. How advantageous it would be for a durable prosperity of North eastern States? ? This presentation file would be downloadable: http://ugc-inno-nehu.com/LEP.ppt Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

3. Even at the outset, only as much as this author’s exposure to L.E.P. are concerned, the importance of Science & Technology Education seemed particularly much of a rare topic in the context of LEP. This contributory material for this seminar was drafted without much effort to know about what is currently going on… However a glance through the internet documentations did point out the context as could be appreciated by this author and examples are cited in these slides……. Excerpts from this author’s draft manuscript……… below…... ………..education is imperative and more specifically, Science and Technology education must be considered with a highest priority if the development in the region has to be achieved by the use of principles of automation and use of machineries. ………… Thus, it becomes necessary to accomplish the simultaneous development of Human Resource potential and the Material Resource management. Which would be given the priority over which during the various stages of development: in the early stages, intermediate stages and the final stages? This is clearly the trend which prompts for a planning and the kind of strategy to be followed. Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

4. From Internet Search…… An article by Nityanand DevaRoll No. 100PGDBA 2nd Semester (2005-2007)Section BJaipuria Institute of ManagementLucknow India's Look-East Policy http://www.indianmba.com/Occasional_Papers/OP104/op104.html Look-east policy was launched in 1992 just after the end of the cold war, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. After the start of liberalization, it was a very strategic policy decision taken by the government in the foreign policy. To quotePrime Minister Manmohan Singh"it was also a strategic shift in India's vision of the world and India's place in the evolving global economy". It is only with the formulation of the Look-East policy in the last decade (1992), India had started giving this region due importance in the foreign policy. India became a sectoral dialogue partner with ASEAN in 1992, a full dialogue partner in 1995, a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in 1996, and a summit level partner (on par with China, Japan and Korea) in 2002. Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

5. The ASEAN region has an abundance of natural resources and significant technological skills. These provide a natural base for the integration between ASEAN and India in both trade and investment. The present level of bilateral trade with ASEAN of nearly US $ 18 billion is reportedly increasing by about 25 % per year. India hopes to reach the level of US $ 30 billion by 2007. India is also improving its relations with the help of other policy decisions like offers of lines of credit, better connectivity through air (open skies policy), rail and road links. A strategy for development of NORTH EAST INDIA The China Factor: India getting preference over china Advantages of the policy The Look-East policy has been given a significant thrust since the beginning of this century and the results achieved are evident as mentioned in the report. Now India has entered into the phase two of this policy.The second phase in India's Look East policy has a new dimension — the development of India's remote northeast. India's search for a new economic relationship with South East Asia is no longer drivenby considerations of globalization, but to facilitate development of the Northeast by increasing its connectivity to the outside world. Instead of trying to isolate the Northeast from external influences, as it had done in the past, New Delhi is now recognizing the importance of opening it up for commercial linkages with South East Asia. Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

6. Let the people become aware of the environment and the material resources available in their region. And indigenously develop methods for the value addition to the materials, by their ingenuities and the development thus achieved would be entirely their own effort and would become sustainable with the peoples genialities as conditioned by the tradition, climate and culture in the region. Aid the region by providing the technological products which are conducive for better living even under the unfavorable environmental factors. The purpose is to provide them with such technological environment so that the natives in the region would improve on their faculty to respond effectively to the stimuli and put to use their sensibilities to assess the amenities as conducive or uncongenial. This would produce human resources who can set standards for the technology related activities, thus getting the recognition of highly developed regions. Increased economic integration with Asia has helped India because the core competencies of these economies are different. So India can import the goods from other countries which can be produced by other countries at a lower cost then India. India can export those goods for which India has a competitive advantage. This arrangement is mutually beneficiation for India and East Asia countries .Due to this there is a Substantial potential of Asian Economic Integration in helping Asia resume a high growth path.East Asia's StrengthsIndia's Strengths1) Electronic equipment                                          Computer Software 2) Heavy engineering                                             Light engineering and pharmaceuticals 3) Product development and marketing                      Process development4) Underutilized capacity in constructionHuge potential demand Raw materials made available by Foreign countries for labor- intensive outputs? OUTSOURCING by the west? Startegy-1 Startegy-2 Science and Technology Education Abundance of Potential Human Resource for utilization and management of material resources and machines Availability of materials and machines OUTSOURCING This presentation file would be downloadable: http://ugc-inno-nehu.com/LEP.ppt Science and Technology Education Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

7. http://www.whatisindia.com/editorials/wis200501019_indias_look_east_policy.htmlhttp://www.whatisindia.com/editorials/wis200501019_indias_look_east_policy.html An analysis by Eric Koo Peng Kuan: India's Look East Policy:Analytical perspectives from the political, economic and military lenses Currently, SEA’s attention remains focused on China for potential economic development. Relatively free trade and large-scale investments are still currently taking place, bringing mutual benefits for both investors and China itself. Historical experience, however, has shown that China will eventually wish to take its historical place of dominance in Asia, and also the full control of its economic destiny in the manner of a huge empire-like state. Simultaneously, China will wish to restore bilateral relations with other Asian states in mutually beneficial but unequal trade and economic status just like the historical tributary states in pre-modern times. Interference from CHINA not to cause set backs to ASEAN developments……. India’s advantage over China lies in the fact of its abstinence from exhibiting ambitions toward a regional hegemony, making it less threatening to states in the SEA region. Should other nations in SEA discover that, in a future scenario, options of trade and investments with China become unfeasible, countries in SEA naturally will then turn towards the next obvious and available option --- India. The writer is a freelance writer who holds a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS). He currently writes commentaries and analysis articles on international affairs, security issues and terrorism for newspapers. Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

8. This presentation file would be downloadable: http://ugc-inno-nehu.com/LEP.ppt This strategy 2 would eventually set the trend for evaluators of goods but much less as producers of technological goods. Their may be more demand on them for this faculty by stuffing the region with all kinds of products to know the values of such inventions. Skilled people in a resource wise impoverished region Strategy 1 Let the people become aware of the environment and the material resources available in their region. And indigenously develop methods for the value addition to the materials, by their ingenuities and the development thus achieved would be entirely their own effort and would become sustainable with the peoples genialities as conditioned by the tradition, climate and culture in the region. Aid the region by providing the technological products which are conducive for better living even under the unfavorable environmental factors. The purpose is to provide them with such technological environment so that the natives in the region would improve on their faculty to respond effectively to the stimuli and put to use their sensibilities to assess the amenities as conducive or uncongenial. This would produce human resources who can set standards for the technology related activities, thus getting the recognition of highly developed regions. OUTSOURCING By strategy 1, the region would develop only to the extent to which the regional conditions would permit.To develop on par with other regions not constrained by the natural resources in the region an alternative should be evolved which would bring the region to develop to a stage of technologically advanced regions with amenities compensating for the shortfalls of the natural resources. Strategy 2 Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

9. This strategy 2 would eventually set the trend for evaluators of goods but much less as producers of technological goods. Their may be more demand on them for this faculty by stuffing the region with all kinds of products to know the values of such inventions. Skilled people but in a resource wise impoverished region is the result with heavy dependence on resources from outside the region Strategy 1 Let the people become aware of the environment and the material resources available in their region. And indigenously develop methods for the value addition to the materials, by their ingenuities and the development thus achieved would be entirely their own effort and would become sustainable with the peoples genialities as conditioned by the tradition, climate and culture in the region. Aid the region by providing the technological products which are conducive for better living even under the unfavorable environmental factors. The purpose is to provide them with such technological environment so that the natives in the region would improve on their faculty to respond effectively to the stimuli and put to use their sensibilities to assess the amenities as conducive or uncongenial. This would produce human resources who can set standards for the technology related activities, thus getting the recognition of highly developed regions. By strategy 1, the region would develop only to the extent to which the regional conditions would permit.To develop on par with other regions not constrained by the natural resources in the region an alternative should be evolved which would bring the region to develop to a stage of technologically advanced regions with amenities compensating for the shortfalls of the natural resources. Strategy 2 Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

10. At Every stage of development, speedy growth and modernization would be based upon the Science and Technology EDUCATION This presentation file would be downloadable: http://ugc-inno-nehu.com/LEP.ppt ON Recognize the corrective measures required Strategy-1 Know well what this strategy is all about-implement Let the region evolve with the Startegy-2 Draft the objectives of this strategy & phase wise implementation Region evolves with the Strategy-1 for development Startegy-2Alternative strategy? Recognize the corrective measures required OFF Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy

11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asia-map.png Map: This presentation file would be downloadable: http://ugc-inno-nehu.com/LEP.ppt to Zoom OUT India Set the Focus on NEI Dr. S. Aravamudhan NEICSSR Seminar on Look East Policy