The prospects of economic development in the region are necessitating changes in education curriculum at all the levels in the orange city.
NAGPUR: The prospects of economic development in the region are necessitating changes in education curriculum at all the levels in the orange city.
Keeping in view the quality issues, the Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University passed last week a comprehensive perspective plan to be implemented over the next five years.
The chairman of MCI’s Post-Graduate Council, Dr Ved Prakash Mishra, told DNA that the Nagpur University perspective plan (2008-13) “is a vision document which will be able to cater to the manpower needs of the region till 2015”, having factored in the prospective developments in the city.
Nagpur University proposes to open 900 new colleges for professional and other courses, including short-term certificate and orientation courses, which would improve employability of students, keeping in mind the contemporary needs.
Dr Mishra, who was a member of the committee that drafted the plan, said, “The plan envisages opening of not just new colleges, but adding new subjects, new faculties and new courses relevant to the manpower needs of the region,” he said.
“We’ve factored in the 11th five-year plan targets, recommendations of the knowledge commission and regional developmental propositions,” he informed.
“If an applicant wants to apply for a course that’s not available in this university, he could provide the information of the course as to where it is available, and we’ll incorporate it here.”
For instance, Nagpur division is expected to see a boom in hospitality, hospital management, travel and tourism sector in coming years, and tailor-made courses that impart training to students in these fields could fit the needs, experts felt.
While announcing that his company would set up Maintenance-Repair-Overhaul (MRO) facility in Nagpur, vice-chairman of aircraft manufacturing company Boeing Dinesh Keskar had said last year that Nagpur was an ideal location for them due to the availability of trained human resources.
He had, however, felt that the local engineering and technology institutes should introduce new subjects such as aeronautical engineering, to suit the manpower requirements of the industry.
Now, the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) here is learnt to have decided to introduce aeronautical engineering, though a formal decision is yet to be taken in this regard. The course has many takers today, sources said.
Interestingly, even the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is introducing IT education in its schools from primary level. What’s more, the Mayor, Mayatai Iwnate, recently announced the civic body would impart free training to school or college dropouts in foreign languages, such as Spanish, French and German.
“There is a good scope for those well versed with foreign languages to land jobs as translators or in the companies, which have foreign collaborations,” she said and added, the youths from poor background could benefit from the initiative.
What’s more, the private deemed universities are also adding orientation short-term courses, which could improve the chances of a candidate to secure a job.
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