CHENNAI: Drawing examples of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Kamaraj, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, the student debate on ‘Skill building is the raison d’etre of education’ brought out vital points that answered the questions ‘Whether it is skills or subject knowledge that is important for survival’? The debaters were Ayush Bhargava, IIT-Madras; Apoorva Ramachandran, Stella Maris College for Women; Anjul Hans, Great Lakes Institute of Management; Ujjwala Varma, Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute; Priyadharshini Patwa, Asian College of Journalism; Pawan, who goes by his first name, SASTRA University; Anurima Ghosh, MOP Vaishnav College for Women; Amit Antony, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai-campus; Manaswini Prasanna, Women’s Christian College and Mohammad Yashab Abbas, SRM University......click for more

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