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At the Bharat Summit in Rising 2025, Sinha and Oberoi discussed the disconnection of the academy industry in India, obsolete curricula and the need for quality scalable education.
Oberoi acknowledged that AI could move some works, but emphasized his potential to create new opportunities. (Photo: News18)
In the Rising Bharat Summit 2025, Pramath Raj Sinha and Hitesh Oberi, founders of the Universities of Ashoka and Plaksha, the significant disconnection between the academy and the discussed industry. Oberi, who also directs Naukri.com, the largest work portal in India, highlighted the obsolete curriculum, teaching and infrastructure methodologies in Indian universities.
“There are so many problems that I do not know where to start. In my daily work, I execute Naukri., The biggest work portal where we work with companies with employment applicants. I think there is a great disconnection between the academy and the industry. So the industry focuses too much on the industry. It is employable,” he said.
Sinha agreed, and added that the traditional education model is inadequate to provide quality education at the increasing population of India. “You cannot achieve quality education on scale with 25 million to be born every year. I have no answers. The main problem is that there is a disconnection between industry and academia,” he added.
Sinha elaborated the approach of the University of Ashoka to close this gap: “What we (at the University of Ashoka) are doing is bringing back the fundamental form of higher education that our civilization discovered. In the university, you let people discover how they want to lead their life. School is when it teaches essential things. Our biggest learning in Ashoka is to give people choice.
Oberoi said that Indian students carry out higher studies abroad due to the higher curriculum and infrastructure offered by foreign institutions. “The reality is that government resources are limited and higher education is highly subsidized in the country. We saw this and said that we want an institution in the country where we can address some of the problems and try to build, give the people Stanford of Cears Stanford of Cears Yararscarscars cost,” Hey added.
Collective philanthropy behind Ashoka’s success, Plaksha
Sinha highlighted the success of collective philanthropy behind the University of Ashoka: “All this experiment began with ISB. If you look at great universities in the world, nobody possesses them. At the time you say one is not Joadic for any entity.”
Oberoi added that collective philanthropy allows ambitious projects: “The other advantage of collective philanthropy is that it allows individual philanthropists to think big and dream. Projects such as Ashoka and billions of plaque. If some pay more, they can obtain buildings or departments named after them.
Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Both Sinha and Oberoi believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize education and employment. Sinha declared: “AI is going to be a Gamechang for those people who have no education and have no hope of work. They will complicate the jump to schools and university. We have to allow all the Indians to use a dose of the thesis of these”, acesis of these “,” these doses of these “, these fingers of these.
Oberoi acknowledged that AI could move some works, but emphasized its potential to create new opportunities: “AI is a gorilla of a thousand pounds today. Every 10 years, it obtains a technology that is disruptive and the sector, such as the sector. Digital, net negative for some companies, we are automating operations. Let’s take medical attention to all Indians in each village that was not possible before.
