The Hindu Business Line : ‘JKCs getting more jobs for AP students’

Visakhapatnam, Sept. 21 Nearly a thousand Jawahar Knowledge Centres in Andhra Pradesh, set up by the Institute of Electronic Governance of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, are dramatically improving the job prospects of engineering students and others, especially those from a rural background, according to Dr M. Chandra Sekhar, Director (Academic Affairs) of the institute.

At a press meet here on Friday, he said the JKC concept was being implemented in the State for the past three years, as it was found that students from rural areas, even though they had the academic knowledge, were found wanting by the industry in the other respects. “So we have been training students in personality development and imparting them the necessary soft skills and also the ability to converse in English fluently. The training has dramatically improved their job prospects. Previously, only eight to nine per cent of the rural students (engineering graduates) were getting good jobs in the industry. Now the percentage has gone up to 24,” he said.

He said the other States were emulating Andhra Pradesh as they too were facing the same problem. “As the IT industry moves to the tier-two cities such as Vizag, the problem gets more pronounced. The students need a little additional help, which is provided at the JKCs,” he added.

Mr B. Murali Manohar Rao, President of the Vizag Information Technology Association, said Visakhapatnam, with Rs 400 crore of software exports, is attracting many MNCs and IT is bound to take off in the city in coming years,” he said.

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