The Hindu Business Line : NITK finishing school programme from May 21

Mangalore April 22 With a view to meet the immediate human resource requirements of IT (information technology) and ITES (IT-enabled services) industries, the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) at Surathkal in Mangalore will conduct a finishing school programme for engineering graduates from May 21.

Addressing presspersons here, Dr Sandeep Sancheti, Director of NITK, said that this pilot effort has twin objectives of offering suitable candidates to IT industry, and helping young graduates to find jobs through appropriate retraining. "The main purpose of the programme is to enhance and sharpen the required skills among the engineering graduates, and make them employable in the IT and ITES industry," he said.

As per the initiative of Nasscom and the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, NITs in Surathkal, Calicut, Jaipur, Durgapur, Kurukshetra, Trichy, Warangal and Roorkee will conduct finishing school programmes for eight weeks during May-June on a pilot basis. Depending upon the success of the pilot programme and the feedback received from the students and industry, the finishing school concept would be scaled up during the next year, he said.

In NITK, the finishing school will be for eight weeks from May 21. Students from all branches of engineering, who have completed the degree in 2006 or earlier, are eligible to apply. The last date for receiving applications at NITK is April 27.

A student should have secured not less than 60 per cent in the engineering degree to be eligible to apply. The institute shall select top 100 candidates, based on the academic performance in the engineering degree. Around 60 per cent of the Finishing School time will be spent on technical skills and the 40 per cent on soft skills.

He said that 25 faculty members of NITK, along with experts from IT industry, would conduct this programme. To a query on course fee, he said the programme is subsidised by the Government and students are required to pay a fee of Rs 5,000. The fee is Rs 2,500 for SC, ST and OBC candidates. After the successful completion of the programme, placement efforts would be made by the NITK, Nasscom and other interested agencies, he said.

The programme will be officially launched at Shastri Bahwan, Ministry of HRD in New Delhi on May 4, he added.

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