NEW DELHI - In what promises to be a “major boost” for the country’s technical education and engineering programs, India on June 13 became a permanent signatory of the Washington Accord (WA), joining a select group of 17 countries. According to the human resource development (HRD) ministry, the status would provide “global mobility” to the country’s technical and engineering graduates and enhance...
their “employment opportunities” around the world. “This is major boost and will ensure highest quality assurance standards to be implemented in our technical and engineering programs and provide global mobility to our engineering graduates,” union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said. “Graduates having degrees, which have been so accredited,