FICCI has proposed setting up of National Knowledge Functional Hub (NKFH) to engage higher Educational Institutions with the industry to produce quality engineering graduates and meet increasing requirement of engineers..
FICCI Capital Goods Committee Chairman K Venkataramanan said recommended that each capital goods company can adopt two to three institutions in its vicinity for sustained interaction and collaboration under the proposed initiative.
Venkataraman maintained that the aim of NKFH is to facilitate industry-academia connect in tier-II and tier-III institutions which are the source of bulk engineering graduates for the capital goods industry.
He also said that the institutes should put forth proposals for collaborating with companies of their choice.
