The Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) will be deploying Service Providers of national and international repute for carrying out assessment and placement of students under the “Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavalamban Yojana”, officials informed.
Notably, the “Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavalamban Yojana” project is a major initiative taken by Government of Chhattisgarh aimed to improve placement rates of fresh college graduates of three and four year degree courses in IT and ITeS sectors.
The program envisages to assess students, provide employability training and secure placements. The assessment will be carried out to understand the trainability and employability of students and accordingly, separate training will be designed with a view of the in-demand skills and abilities in contemporary employment market.
The training will be delivered by leading trainers.
After training, the students will undergo a post assessment test and accordingly eligible students will be placed.
The potential list of aptitude training areas includes English Speaking and verbal ability, Quantitative Aptitude, logical and analytical ability, presentation Skill, Group Discussion and any other area shall be identified by the Service Provider for Assessment and Placement.
Notably, Chhattisgarh has already established itself as a major educational hub with presence of premier institutions like NIT, IIM, NlU and AIIMS. It also, has many other world class educational institutions for professional programmes such as Engineering, MCA and MBA as well as in Humanities, Commerce and the Sciences, officials informed.
However, there is a gap between the number of students graduating and the number of students getting placed. There is a tangible gap between present state of aptitude and the required aptitude for getting selected in prestigious organizations, they informed.
Hence, there is a need to establish the platform which could increase the employment opportunities. It is an observed trend that most employers in IT and ITeS sector have rigorous training programmes that provide the necessary technical skills that are required to perform the jobs for which they hire. The focus,when these employers hire, is on assessing a range of abilities.
The general curriculum of our education system has been focussed on imparting technical skills. However, aptitude is an area which tends to get ignored and thus students from Chhattisgarh tend to lose out to fresh graduates from larger cities which offer better opportunities for schooling and more exposure, officials informed.
Therefore, imparting abilities training to help them prepare for the selection process in a short and concentrated capsule is expected to improve greatly the chances of the students of Chhattisgarh securing employment with some of the best employers in the IT/BPM space.
The training must will also be complemented with efforts to establish the credibility of Chhattisgarh in providing quality talent as well as to ensure that reputed organizations come to Chhattisgarh for recruitment. This may start the trend where students, corporate and government of Chhattisgarh are mutually benefitted, officials informed.