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Nasscom MoU aims at skill development
The Telangana government is toying with the idea of creating a Data Analytics Park to tap the employment opportunities and to impart requisite skills among students. As part of this programme, the government has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom)
JNTU’s ambitious plan to train 15000 engg students annually
Hyderabad: The Telangana government is toying with the idea of creating a Data Analytics Park to tap the employment opportunities and to impart requisite skills among students. As part of this programme, the government has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) to train 15,000 engineering students with industry-oriented skills every year.
The tripartite MoU was signed between Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Hyderabad (JNTU-H), Nasscom and the Telangana Academy of Skill and Knowledge in the presences of Telangana Information Technology and Panchayat Raj Minister K T Rama Rao at the Secretariat here on Tuesday.
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As per the MoU, industry-designed courses: Data Analytics, Cyber Security and Design Engineering would be incorporated in the engineering stream. The final year students have to take these specially-designed courses as an elective in their final year of engineering. At the end of the course, the students would be given a certificate from the industry and are absorbed. Under the pilot project, these courses would be inducted in 27 engineering colleges under JNTU-H. It would be extended to all the colleges across the state in a few years.
Speaking to newspersons after the meeting, KTR said there would be paradigm shift in the engineering education. “It is very easy to be an engineer in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh today. Quality of education is more important than the quantity. The project is not aimed at errant engineering colleges in the state, but to increase the employability skills among the students,” he said.
For the successful implementation of the scheme, the JNTU-H would train 100 faculty members of constituent and affiliated colleges of the university, said JNTU-H in-charge Vice-Chancellor Shailaja Ramaiyer. Nasscom Vice-Chairman BVR Mohan Reddy said they had already visited 27 engineering colleges with intent to take students as interns and also to hire students.
The industry is very intensely involved in making sure that quality of education improves in the colleges. Today technologies are changing rapidly so are the requirements. For our own self interests, we are going back to the engineering colleges and intensely work with them, he added.
