Bhubaneswar: In order to make engineering graduates ‘industry worthy’, the state government Tuesday said it has launched ‘finishing school’, a specialised and dedicated programme.
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar, has set up a ‘finishing school’ to implement the programme, Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said after chairing a Board of Governors’ meeting at the Secretariat here.
He directed the IIIT authorities to make the courses industry-oriented through direct interface with them.
Under the programme, the students would be trained with quality skills, employment oriented dexterity, quantitative aptitude, soft skills and other things required for their employment. The programme will have training and skilling duration of 150 hours spanning over two months.
Officials said the classes at school would commence in the current academic year with an objective of training 300 students in batches.
Each batch will have 100 students and the first batch will start in July, 2017, the officials added. Any graduate in electrical sciences, communication engineering, information technology having domiciled in Orissa can avail of the opportunity, they added.
There would be seven normal assessments including two final assessments. The detailed procedure for availing of this facility has been put on the website www.iiit-bh.ac.in.
The cost of availing the training per student is pegged at `6,000, of which the state government would bear `3,000.
Padhi also asked the IIIT-Bhubaneswar authorities to connect their students to loan subvention schemes of the state government so that no eligible student is deprived of the technical education due to financial constraints.
The state government provides interest subvention to banks for educational loans advanced to the students to pursue higher technical studies. This subvention is also made available even during the moratorium period. The student has to pay only one per cent of interest and the remaining would be borne by the state.
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