PIET CEO: Ms Moulshree Dubey Interview

Ms Moulshree Dubey is the Chief Executive Officer at Professional Institute of Engineering and Technology, Raipur. With a demonstrated history of working in the education sector for 5 years, she is skilled in Structural engineering and Strong business development. She has completed a Ph.D. focussed in structural engineering and is a Gold medallist as well. She has been honoured with "EdTech CEO of the Year" 2020 by Business World and has also received the Business World Education 40 under 40 award. She has been working to improve the standard of education by promoting the ideology of ‘Learning by Practice’ and is working towards building a carbon-neutral environment and improving the lives of people in remote areas through various projects and innovations. For her excellence in engineering and innovation, she has also been nominated for Asia One United Nations Women Empowerment Award and also the Most Influential Young Leader 2021.

What are the key factors that keep you connected with the education sector?

“Ability to give back to the society by educating and building professionals”

I have been constantly working towards inculcating CSR as a part of our governance. The centres of knowledge generation and sharing play a very important role in solving the world's problems by ensuring a sustainable tomorrow. Higher education is better off when it gives back to the society that is responsible for funding it. Universities “cannot be sustainable without being socially responsible”, especially in terms of procuring adequate funding and making higher education accessible to students of all socio-economic backgrounds.

What is your philosophy of leadership?

“Clear communication and delegating tasks to deserving candidates”

I would describe my leadership style as a coach. I enjoy helping people tap into their ability to achieve all that they're capable of. I believe that everyone has the power within themselves. While I enjoy delegating tasks to my team members and giving them space and time to perform, I also like to stay involved and inspire my team by showing that I’m working hands-on to help them, too. 

What would you like people to know about your university they may not know?

“We believe in developing professionals with skills and conceptual understanding of the technical subjects”

At PIETECH, we consider engineering is best taught by practice. It is an institute that was started by a group of retired NIT Professors to impart technical education to the youth of our country. We have a “Super 240” batch of engineers every year who are focused on sustainable development and are dedicated to their craft. We are well on our way to be carbon neutral. We have started a new organic development branch (VISHVAM) with great success, and hope to continue bringing our expertise to this field. We have classes from Tuesday to Sunday and our Mondays are off since we arrange expert lectures from NIT professors on Saturdays and Sundays.

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What do you see as the PIET’s greatest strengths?

“An institute developed by NIT professors with energetic students group”

The greatest strength of any institute is the student crowd. Hence, I make sure to bring out the best in each one of them by creating a space for learning and practicing. The ideology behind it has always been ‘think global, work local’. It’s a continuous effort from my side to develop a potential and scope of learning and creating with locally available materials rather than relying on outsourcing. One of the strengths also includes the fact that it is an institute developed by NIT professors so the teaching, learning experience is one of its kind and technically strong. 

What are some of the biggest challenges for the higher education sector?

“Language barrier and lack of access to technology for rural students”

About Chhattisgarh’s technical education, the major challenge is language. 95% of students are from Hindi medium schools but engineering is in the English language. The number of People falling below the poverty line is high with access to zero basic amenities and access to the internet. With very low or free education fees we have been using things manufactured by us, such as tables and chairs for classrooms that have been made in our mechanical engineering workshop. Providing remote villages with access to education and training and promoting science and technology is a prevalent challenge.

Any suggestions you would like to give to the current youth?

“Technical students should be encouraged to innovate by providing them with space”

The best suggestion which I got from my favourite author and which I keep giving to students, is that “practice, practice and practice, make the world your playground’. That’s how university students will work towards the betterment of society and innovate new technologies. We need to encourage and give space to our technical students for innovation, and not restrict them only to five units of the syllabus.

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How do you tend to establish a healthy relation and environment in your college?

"To better coach them, I rely on effective communication and delegation”

I try to understand things end to end and develop a process design and identify areas to work with locally available resources. It involves students and a group of faculty members, stakeholders and local panchayat members. This helps in developing a healthy atmosphere among them. We as a team then Implement one single solution which can work in adverse climatic locations with different methodologies, tools and techniques. I always try to delegate tasks to whoever is best equipped to perform well in it.