Bhubaneswar: The government has asked all engineering colleges across the state to chart out an action plan to implement the mandatory period of internship for students to gain practical experience.
State skill development and technical education department has directed the authorities of all the engineering colleges to finalise the plan by selecting the industrial institutions by January 30. From the next academic session, three internships during the tenure of the course will be compulsory for the students.
The colleges will also ensure that the students to take part in digital programming competition "Smart India Hackathon, 2018".
Hosted by the Union ministry of human resource development and the All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), the exercise aims to harnesses creativity of students and crowd-source solutions for improving governance and give opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India'ss daunting problems.
The Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) has been asked to make a calendar for providing coaching to the students with an aim that at leat 25 per cent of the students clear the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).
In another development, the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is devising a six-month programme for the teachers to prepare them to understand the new-age training techniques. This pedagogical training for the faculty members will be made compulsory for the teachers and will be implemented for next year.
The students and faculties of all the government engineering colleges will be asked for compulsory registration under Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (Swayam) and the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
"Low employability levels of students have been a major cause of concern. Even though companies are coming for campus selection, they are not getting students with the requisite skills. So, the move will be helpful for the students," said Arindam Satpathy, the principal of a private engineering college in the city.
