About 15,000 students of the State’s Government colleges will be imparted short-term job-oriented training. A target has been set to benefit 7,500 students with 120 short-term trainings under Swami Vivekananda Career Guidance Scheme in the second quarter of the session 2014-15 and 7,500 students with 120 short-term trainings in the fourth quarter.
The main objective of short-term vocational training is to ensure students’ personality development as per their interests, acclimatise them with rudimentary computer knowledge and prepare them for placement.
The scheme also aims at promoting entrepreneurship, among youths and provides them self-employment as small entrepreneurs through District Trade and Industry Centres, Khadi and Village Industry Board and MSMEs.
The higher education department has signed an MoU with Telecom Sector Skill Council. Apart from short-term job-oriented training during the session, career opportunity fairs will also be held in about 50 government colleges. It is also proposed to take students of some selected colleges on industrial tours.
A target has also been set to hold placement fairs with the cooperation of various employers and companies and make available direct jobs to 5000 students.
Campus placement drive was held on July 8 at Government Nirbhay Singh Patel Science College of Indore. Placement drives were held in July in six colleges of Indore, seven colleges of Bhopal and nearby districts, two of Neemuch and two colleges of Dewas.
Higher and Technical Education and Skill Development Minister Umashankar Gupta has informed that career guidance activities will be conducted in government colleges throughout the State.