Hyderabad: Union government aims to make India the "design outsourcing hub of the world" in the next decade by creating more designers in different fields, Union Minister for Commerce Anand Sharma said today.
"Finland has 145 designers per million population, Japan 90 per million whereas India has a dismal two designers per million population. This needs to be changed in the next five years and we should aim to create a pool of 15,000 top designers", Sharma told reporters here.
Earlier in the day, he laid a foundation stone for the proposed National Institute of Design at Gopannapalli near here, in the company of Union HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
"The NID caters to many verticals like industrial designing, communication, automobiles, civil aviation, animation and interior designing. India should eventually become an outsourcing hub for designers. For this we need to weave in a philosophy of design into education and build linkages with education system", Sharma said.
25/05/13 PTI/Economic Times
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"Finland has 145 designers per million population, Japan 90 per million whereas India has a dismal two designers per million population. This needs to be changed in the next five years and we should aim to create a pool of 15,000 top designers", Sharma told reporters here.
Earlier in the day, he laid a foundation stone for the proposed National Institute of Design at Gopannapalli near here, in the company of Union HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
"The NID caters to many verticals like industrial designing, communication, automobiles, civil aviation, animation and interior designing. India should eventually become an outsourcing hub for designers. For this we need to weave in a philosophy of design into education and build linkages with education system", Sharma said.
25/05/13 PTI/Economic Times
