The district's first Government-run Rao Tula Ram University will soon run five professional courses from its ad hoc campus. The university administration has prepared a proposal to start these courses from the next academic session. Currently, the university has started its operations from the newly constructed Rao Tula Ram Commerce College building in Sector-51.
The proposed courses are related to Information Technology (IT), Hospitality Management, law, Business Management, Robotic technology and language skills development programmes.
The university officials have also confirmed that the Government has pledged a sum of `2 crore to set up the separate floor at Rao Tula Ram College campus in Sector-51 for the University operations.
The district's first Government runs university's main campus will come up in sector-87 at Kankrola village. The officials expect that the university will be operational within one-and-a-half year. "We have planned to focus on skill development among youth to make them employable. The Gurugram and adjoining districts have a couple of industrial and multi-national companies (MNCs) hub. Through these courses, we would like to develop different skills among the youth to grab these job opportunity," Divisional Commissioner D Suresh, who is officiating as the varsity's vice-chancellor, said.
The officials have also confirmed that the professionals from the different sectors like hospitality management had contacted them to work with the institutions to help them and would like to improve different skills among the youngsters. "As the district has prominent healthcare institutions so it will be beneficial for the candidates who would like to studies in the healthcare sectors," an official, said.
"Youth in Haryana have some problem with the language skills. They have some language accents problem in the communication skills. So we have planned to start language skills lab and research centers to work on the issue," the Divisional Commissioner added.
"We are also planning to introduce international guest faculty in the institutions to share their work culture and experience among the youth to provide valuable lessons to different professional programmers," he said.
"According to the NASSCOM figures, only 8 per cent youths based on Haryana are working in different industrial hubs within Gurugram and the adjoining districts. The reason behind the low employment was lack of professional skills," an official with the institution, said.
Earlier in June, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar laid the foundation stone of the city's first Government university. He had announced `5 crore for the initial phase of construction of the university which would be set up across 50 acres in Sector-87 at Kakrola village.