To prepare students for jobs and create opportunities for non-engineering students in the IT and ITes sectors, the West Bengal University of Technology signed a memorandum of understanding with Nasscom this evening.
The MoU indicates that at least 2,000 students of the university will undergo a six-week training course and appear for a competency test which will judge how suitable they are for IT and ITes-related jobs. The focus will be on students from the districts who, unlike their city counterparts, are deprived of such opportunities. Among the 100 colleges affiliated to WBUT, almost 50 are in the districts. Mr Ashok Ranjan Thakur, WBUT vice chancellor, said: “The training programme will prepare students from 18 non-engineering undergraduate courses for the test which will judge their suitability for the IT sector.
The course will be available to students in all our district colleges.” The six-week training course will start on 1 August and the test, Nasscom Assessment of Competence, is scheduled for 16 September.
A job fair, to be attended by many IT companies, will be held on 11 November. Students will be offered job profiles most suited to them at the fair. The university authorities have decided that students of the pilot batch will not have to pay any fee for the course.
The university will provide for the course with money from its student development fund.
The students of the pilot batch will be selected on the basis of certain guidelines.
Stressing the need for improving communication skills of non-engineering students, Ms Sandhya Chintala, director of education, who took the initiative to rope in Nasscom, said: “Students will be judged on six basic criteria such as their ability to speak and listen, analytical sense, besides conceptual, writing and keyboarding skills.
“Jobs will be offered on the basis of students’ efficiency in any of these categories.”The job profile will include outsourcing work in banks, insurance, law, finance, medical transcription, patenting and hospitality.
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