New Delhi: The Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal was invited in a seminar organized by HP and CNBC-TV18 titled 'Education 2.0: Rebooting the Indian Education System' as its chief guest and key note speaker here recently, which focused on sustaining and maintaining the Indian education system.

"The Indian education system has captured the attention of the world due to its talent pool, which has been one of the most sought after in world. The growth of the Indian economy and the compulsion to sustain it is also forcing the Indian government to accelerate the process of developing all the branches of Indian education system today," said a press release.

"While India's future lies in the classrooms it is very necessary to understand and ensure that the talent been churned out from the Indian education system has the capability to match the best in the world. Keeping this view point in mind HP and CNBC-TV18 presented Education 2.0: Rebooting the Indian Education System," it added.

Other prominent speakers at the panel included Mr. Vinay Awasthi, Director, Desktop Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard, India, Mr. Karan Bajwa- General Manager, Public Sector for Microsoft India and Dr. Gautam Bose, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, who discussed and shared view points on upgrading the education system to level 2.0 from ‘brick-and-mortar’ approach to 'click-and-mortar' approach.

The panel discussion analyzed the various avenues, including collaborative educational systems, online or TV based classrooms and tools like e-book readers, economical IT/PC solutions to help bring the idea of quality education to Indian education system.

While speaking at the occasion CNBC-TV18 spokesperson said, "Though a lot of India’s human resource is most sought after in the world and we do have a few good numbers of educational institutes that can compete with the best educational institutes of the world. It is preliminary education system in India that needs to be developed. The seminar will highlight and ideate on the various possibilities in which Information Technology can help in taking the Indian education system to the next level."

Ms. Deepti Dang, Head, Marketing - Commercial & SMB, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd said, "Access to technology at affordable prices has the potential to fast track the growth of education sector in India. At HP we are committed towards developing products and solutions that provide impetus to this growth. Multi Seat, powered by Microsoft Windows Multi Point Server 2010, is one such technology that has the potential to bridge the digital divide through giving access to collaborative and economical technology."