US vice-president Joe Biden today hailed the premier
MUMBAI: US VP Joe Biden today hailed the chief Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay as "one of the heading" engineering schools on the planet that left him "amazingly awed".
"I have been greatly awed. This is an extraordinary college, one of the heading schools on the planet in the field of engineering," he said in the wake of going to different research centers and collaborating with understudies on the grounds. Biden's remarks came in the middle of talk of declining principles of training in the nation.
In the wake of going to the branches of Nano Technology and Earth Sciences, he held a shut entryway gathering with female people seeking after doctoral studies in numerous restrains.
"We are taking a gander at India's future. I would not joke about this," he said, refering to the oft-utilized quote "ladies are half the sky". Biden, who wrapped up his 4-day India visit with IIT-B as his final port of call, especially liked the different work being carried out by the female people he met in zones as changed as transportation, training and medication.
Going hand in hand with US authorities said the gathering was part of an Indo-US organization on 'women in science'. "To see these ladies occupied with science, engineering and designing is something worth advertising quite intensely in the Us.in the US, now more ladies move on from school than men and still there are just 20 for every penny or somewhere in the vicinity entering the science stream," he said.
Biden, the first US VP to visit India in the most recent three decades, said what's to come for the individuals of this nation which is "generally open and generally illustrative" is much better.
"We need to exploit the group abilities of our populace," he included.
"I have been greatly awed. This is an extraordinary college, one of the heading schools on the planet in the field of engineering," he said in the wake of going to different research centers and collaborating with understudies on the grounds. Biden's remarks came in the middle of talk of declining principles of training in the nation.
In the wake of going to the branches of Nano Technology and Earth Sciences, he held a shut entryway gathering with female people seeking after doctoral studies in numerous restrains.
"We are taking a gander at India's future. I would not joke about this," he said, refering to the oft-utilized quote "ladies are half the sky". Biden, who wrapped up his 4-day India visit with IIT-B as his final port of call, especially liked the different work being carried out by the female people he met in zones as changed as transportation, training and medication.
Going hand in hand with US authorities said the gathering was part of an Indo-US organization on 'women in science'. "To see these ladies occupied with science, engineering and designing is something worth advertising quite intensely in the Us.in the US, now more ladies move on from school than men and still there are just 20 for every penny or somewhere in the vicinity entering the science stream," he said.
Biden, the first US VP to visit India in the most recent three decades, said what's to come for the individuals of this nation which is "generally open and generally illustrative" is much better.
"We need to exploit the group abilities of our populace," he included.
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