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India Planning New Institute To Train Space Cadets
Bangalore, India (SPX) Feb 28, 2007 Faced with a talent crunch, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is contemplating to set up an institute to train techies. In an interview, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair acknowledged that with the booming IT sector absorbing young engineers with fat pay packets, other fields are facing the brunt. "At one time, we used to get top-most personnel from various institutions. But today that situation does not exist. Even after going through all India tests, we are not able to get all the numbers we want," Nair said. He added, "At the same time, we don't want to compromise on quality. So, we are seriously contemplating whether we can start an exclusive institute which will take people and train them in space programmes". Nair said if everything goes well, the Bangalore-headquartered ISRO should be able to start the institute this year. According to him, the institute would offer graduate and post-graduate courses in space programmes and technologies and related areas, while there would also provisions to carry out R and D activities. Nair also pitched in strongly for parity in wage structure that rewarded bright engineers and researchers irrespective of the sectors they are working in. We need roughly 300 persons (engineers) every year. At least half of that should be met with this institute, while the rest will come from open market," Nair said. Nair said the trend in various sectors (other than IT) not getting the talent they require -- along with steady drop in students enrolling for basic research -- is not healthy for the country. "You take our manufacturing sector...we are not able to give good talent. You take teaching profession, we are not able to give good talent...scientific research institutions... we are not able to get the best of the people. If we starve (for talent) so much, it's going to hurt us in the long run". He said it is the "distortion" in wage structure that is attracting young engineers to the IT sector. "For the same job, you may have to pay in the US at least five times for employees there. But here, best of the people are taken for one-fifth of the US salary and doing very routine jobs. Of course, there are exceptions with some people doing R and D. But 90 per cent of talent is wasted. It's not a good situation for the country". "People have to sit together...industries...IT industry... R and D labs and they should try to evolve a workable wage policy by which certain competencies are paid for whether you work for this sector or that sector...competencies that's valued and type of technical challenges what they face...that should be given more importance," he said.
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Late Noodle King Of Japan To Be Blasted Into Space
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 28, 2007The Japanese inventor of instant noodles will symbolically blast off into space next week at his funeral at a baseball stadium officiated by three dozen monks, his company said Friday. The funeral for Momofuku Ando, who died on January 5 at age 96, took place on Tuesday at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, which can hold as many as 55,000 people, said Nissin Food Products, which Ando founded. |
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