India can improve GII rankings through quality education, Periyar University VC says

TRICHY: India can improve its Global Innovation Index (GII) ranking through quality education, said Periyar University vice-chancellor P Kolandaivel on Thursday.
Kolandaivel, who was the chief guest at the graduation day of students of Anna University’s Trichy regional engineering colleges, said, “We’re placed 60th in the GII rankings (57th, according to the latest rankings). We’ve not been very good innovators. We can improve it only through quality education.”

Kolandaivel said innovation is the need of the hour in the country. “Engineers could contribute a lot to it,’ he said.

The graduation day was conducted for students of university colleges of engineering here (Bharathidasan Institute of Technology campus), Ariyalur, Pattukottai and Thirukkuvalai.

Anna University vice-chancellor of M K Surappa presided over the event.

A total of 1,905 undergraduate students and postgraduate students of the four colleges received their degrees during at the event.

Two state rank holders were felicitated with mementos, 32 university toppers were presented gold medals and 13 college rank holders were given certificates.