MUMBAI: US vice-president Joe Biden today
hailed the premier Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay as "one of the leading"
technology schools in the world that left
him "extremely impressed".
"I have been extremely impressed. This is a
great university , one of the leading
universities in the world in the field of
technology," he said after visiting various
laboratories and interacting with students
on the campus. Biden's comments came
amid talk of declining standards of
education in the country.
After visiting the departments of Nano
Technology and Earth Sciences, he held a
closed-door meeting with female students
pursuing doctoral studies in multiple
disciplines.
"We are looking at India's future. I mean
it," he said, citing the oft-used quote
"women are half the sky". Biden, who
wrapped up his 4-day India visit with IIT-B
as his last port of call, particularly
appreciated the diverse work being done by
the female students he met in areas as
varied as transportation, education and
medicine.
Accompanying US officials said the meeting
was part of an Indo-US partnership on
'women in science'. "To see these women
engaged in science, technology and
engineering is something worth promoting
very heavily in the US.In the US, now more
women graduate from college than men and
still there are only 20 per cent or so
entering the science stream," he said.
Biden, the first US vice-president to visit
India in the last three decades, said the
future of the people of this country which is
"most open and most representative" is
much better.
"We have to take advantage of the collective
capabilities of our population," he added.
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