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CHENNAI: India should pursue divergent goals such as providing cutting-edge data science education to students at large on one hand and ensuring higher education to girls in villages, said IIT Madras director V Kamakoti on Wednesday."Oil of the world is data. Education has come to our houses through technology. For India to become technologically independent we as a society need to invest in data education. Every student should aspire to pursue a data analytics course. With massive digitization, the next level of business is driven by data," Kamakoti said at the college day of MOP Vaishnav College for Women.He urged colleges to provide education to girls from rural areas. "IIT madras is ready to welcome girl children from rural areas. If we don't improve our educational policies, we will become one of the least educated countries by the next decade," he said.College principal Lalitha Balakrishnan said MOP students would soon have twinning options. "They will be encouraged to take up data science along with their current subjects," she said.BCom (hons) student Rahini S, 20, a first-generation graduate, was awarded the best outgoing student award. "My older sister did not go to college. I've realised that education is important for my livelihood. The college has supported me not just in studies, but in my extra-curricular activities too," she said.

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Data science is the future; get rural girls in colleges, says IIT Madras director V Kamakoti - Times of India