Rethinking engineer training is vital to meeting Asian infrastructure demand - a podcast by Asian Development Bank Institute

Demand for infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific is surging and so too is the need to train the next generation of workers to construct and manage new infrastructure projects. In this podcast, Dr Sudhir Misra of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur discusses the skills gap in civil engineering in India, the importance of overcoming this common challenge to infrastructure growth and sustainable development in the region, and how it can be practically achieved.

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About the author
Sudhir Misra, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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