Despite this infrastructure, there is a "big deficiency" in terms of quality of education, he said at an event here where National Teachers Awards were conferred upon 364 school teachers from across the country. "Unless we have the quality of education, you cannot build a knowledge society. "Today, every year more than 60,000 students leave our country for higher education to Oxford, Cambridge, MIT etc. He congratulated the teachers who were conferred the award and said primary and secondary education lays the foundation of higher education. In his speech, Mukherjee said he was the Visitor of 114 central institutions, including 30 NITs, 16 IITs, 45 universities, management institutions etc.

Source: dna September 05, 2016 17:35 UTC