Now, the dreams of the thousands of students aspiring to become engineers and make a career in the field of science will take wings as the Delhi Government on Wednesday inaugurated a new technical university with 12,000 seats. The varsity is the extension of Netaji Subhash University of Technology (NSUT) which catered to only 3700 students.
Netaji Subhash University of Technology (NSUT) was launched by the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and it will prefer students of the national Capital. The varsity will provide Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech) and Masters in Technology (M.Tech) along with Masters in Sciences (MSc) courses.
“It is a matter of happiness for Delhi to get a new technical university and now the responsibility of making this university world class lies with the students, faculty and the Vice Chancellor. The Government has done its job by creating the university, now it is over to you,” said Sisodia.
“Whenever a new Government takes over, concerned officers of the department make a presentation of the ongoing and pending projects. Meeting held between from 14th February and 13th March 2015, with the officers of the Education Department placed vision, but I felt that it was one-sided since he spoke and others listened. It was a monologue”, Sisodia said
Thus, to change the situation, the Education Minister along with the other senior officers decided to meet at a village near Raipur in Chattisgarh on 2nd April 2015, in an institute working on education. “We stayed there for a week and discussed what we thought about education. It was there that we visualized the NSUT dream and in August 2015, the Delhi Cabinet approved the draft bill for creation of NSUT,” said Sisodia.
However, after the Delhi Assembly passed this Bill, it took two and a half years for the 'Central Government' to approve the NSUT'.
The technical varsity will adopt research and study programmes via flexible and adoptive academic curriculum and Industry Institute partnership for better redressal of community issues. Incubation centers will be set up to bridge the gap between academics and industry. Further, the varsity will create special divisions in selected areas such as management, architecture, medical sciences, applied sciences, energy, environmental studies and nanotechnology.
“NSUT also eyeing on to introduce Post-Doctoral fellowships, Post-Doctoral research programmes with suitable compensation, freedom and traveling grant. Periodic advertisements for the above mentioned programs would be carried out time to time as per the need. Postgraduate student's curriculum and research will be in tune with employers need for their better placement,” said an official.
Further the departments will have separate placement cell besides the central placement cell.
“It is very happy news for the students community especially who wishes to become engineers in future because if government will provide such course because very les government college provides engineering courses,” said a class 12 students.