NIELIT organises workshop on Intellectual Property Rights 14 million people getting employment through IT: A H Moon SRINAGAR, JANUARY 21: Director, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), J&K Department of Electronics and IT, Government of India, Mr. A. H. Moon Tuesday said that Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is emerging as an important issue, touching our lives. He said punch lines are associated with fuel driven economy of our country and at the same time shades of opinion are there about IPR. Mr. Moon was addressing a workshop on IPRs at Hotel Broadway, attended by academicians, legal luminaries, technologists, scientists and students of IT. He further said that IT has grown more than any other industry and 14 million people are getting employment directly or indirectly through IT. Impressing upon close coordination between government, industry and academia, Mr. Moon said that it is a triangle and three major players are at the vertex called popularly triple helix structure. Speaking about impacts of NIELIT training programmes on the society, Mr. Moon said local IT industry is mostly driven by NIELIT pass outs, the qualifiers of ITES-BPO training course serve as the main work force to the ITES-BPO industry in J&K state, training of teachers of Directorate of School education resulted in introducing computer science and IT subjects at secondary and higher secondary level, capacity building of J&K government employees in IT and e-governance awareness programs upto to the level of administrative secretaries have been undertaken by NIELIT, NIELIT brings high-end courses like VLSI design, CAD embedded systems, Information Security and Computer Forensics to the students and professionals in J&K state, security agencies, J&K Police, Indian Army, Indian Air Force have been benefiting from the services and training programs offered by NIELIT and networking courses offered under CCNA/CCNP and certified by CISCO have achieved near 100% employment. Giving resume of major training achievements during last 10 years by NIELIT, Mr. Moon said that 11000 state government employees, 6500 Indian Army personnel and Air Force warriors, 3100 Police sponsored candidates, 3000 teachers, 3200 under ITeS-BPO, 6000 SJSRY, over 15000 under basic computer literacy programs like e-Deeksha, CCC were imparted training. Prof. Farooq Ahmad Mir, Controller of Examination, BOSE, a legal expert discussed patent and said that science needs support of law subject, saying that the two are independent fields but every researcher, inventor and author must know basics of law. Throwing light on “A perspective of perspectives”, Prof Mir said that it perpetuates monopoly of knowledge, imperialistic Hegemony, enforces technical divide, provides economic incentive, respects sweat and labour, invokes natural laws and encourages scientific research and industrial progress. He also spoke about intellectual property, statutory right and patient legal protection. Prof. G.M. Bhat of electronics and instrumentation department, Kashmir University also addressed the workshop on various issues like patent filing in India, significance and drafting, saying that knowledge should lead to wisdom. He stressed for sensitivity a common man, a society about the procedures of filing a patent so that everybody knows the importance of patent. He said that nation should be treated as laboratory. He said all the promotions are linked to patents. He also spoke about fundamental rule of successful innovations. Mr. Sameer, Member EKTA also addressed the workshop. Ms. Sadaf proposed vote of thanks and anchored the workshop.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:09:11 +0000
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