{"id":16642,"date":"2026-05-17T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/17\/amit-shah-pitches-industry-linked-vertical-at-nid\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:05:49","slug":"amit-shah-pitches-industry-linked-vertical-at-nid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=16642","title":{"rendered":"Amit Shah pitches industry-linked vertical at NID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131153494,imgsize-20508,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/1280720-2026-05-17t170759220.jpg\" alt=\"'Like IPL changed cricket..': Amit Shah pitches industry-linked vertical at NID\" title=\"&lt;p&gt;Amit Shah at NID on Sunday&lt;\/p&gt;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Amit Shah at NID on Sunday\"><\/p>\n<p>Amit Shah at NID on Sunday<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Union home minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/amit-shah\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Amit Shah<\/a> on Sunday said India\u2019s design sector needed a structure similar to the Indian Premier League (IPL) to connect creative talent with commercial opportunities. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Addressing students and faculty after inaugurating the Incubation and Innovation Centre at NID, Shah said the sport became a viable career only after commercial opportunities expanded through the IPL model.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>\u201cAfter the IPL, parents now tell children to play cricket because they can build a future from it. In the same way, the commercial potential of design has to be explored fully,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>He called for the creation of a separate vertical at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Gandhinagar to bridge the gap between design education and industry requirements.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>\u201cYou have done an excellent job in establishing the incubation and innovation centre. But those who choose this field as a career must be connected with industry requirements and financial opportunities,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Shah the proposed vertical should focus on commercialisation, noting that institutions like NID already have strong design expertise but need mechanisms to connect creativity with market demand.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>\u201cI think this can only happen if you create a separate vertical for it, because the people here are designers and not experts in commercialisation. NID will have to bring these two together,\u201d Shah said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>The home minister also said that design should expand into high-tech sectors such as semiconductors, microchips, automobiles and industrial infrastructure.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/like-ipl-changed-cricket-amit-shah-pitches-industry-linked-vertical-at-nid\/articleshow\/131153234.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Shah at NID on Sunday Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said India\u2019s design sector needed a structure similar to the Indian Premier League (IPL) to connect creative talent with commercial opportunities. Addressing students and faculty after inaugurating the Incubation and Innovation Centre at NID, Shah said the sport became a viable career&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}