State Council of Higher Education organized one day round table meet on “Internship/ Apprenticeship on the Job Training (OJT) Job Placement / Student development” at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University Campus, Hyderabad on Thursday.
Sri Duddilla Sridhar Babu, Hon’ble Minister for Information Technology, Electronics & Communications; Industries & Commerce and Legislative Affairs, Government of Telangana, was the chief guest for the program.
He said that the state of Telangana is the leader in IT in the country on the other hand in education and suggested that this should be further promoted.There are three verticals in skilling Skill University, Internships and Career progression (Placements). All the three have to work in tandem to provide skills to students in Telangana. Since there was no nodal officer to handle the aspect of skilling, he wanted a short committee to be constituted to go into aspects of Structural Changes leading to transformational changes. The officials of Higher Education Council and Telangana Education Department have suggested that no student studying in government colleges of Telangana state should lose employment opportunities without skills. He said that steps should be taken to ensure that the students get internships in the famous industries of the state while studying at the degree level, so that the students will be connected with the industries and the employment opportunities will improve.
He said that educational institutions will also get an opportunity to train students in a manner required by industries. He said that there are famous IT companies in Hyderabad and the respective multinational companies and famous industrial companies are happy to enter into MoU with the government. He expressed the hope that this would be a boon for more people to get employment from the Telangana region in the coming days.
While appreciating the efforts made by Telangana State Council of Higher Education, the Minister ordered that a special cell should be set up for coordination with the government and industrial organizations and that the Principal Secretary of the Education Department should monitor it from time to time. The Government of Telangana is devising its own State Education Policy, it is likely to borrow some aspects from the NEP 2020 either in toto or in a modified context.
There are states in which there are as many as 10 to 12 Unicorns but in Telangana there are only 2 to 3 Unicorns. A lot has to done to make Telangana the Start up capital of the Country. The government also proposed to set up an International School of Skilling. On this occasion, Telangana State Council of Higher Education and B.F.S.I. entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of Minister.
The minister also unveiled the Telangana State Educational Development Statistics report and diary prepared by the Higher Education Council.
