34 THE WEEK • AUGUST 4, 2019
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Karnataka: India’s
preferred destination
for professional education
BY POOJA PRABBHAN
T
he migration of Indian youngsters to tier I cities in search of lu-
crative career prospects is becoming commonplace today.
Karnataka’s capital, Bengaluru, alone is facing an unprece-
dented influx of workforce and there’s more to it than what meets
the eye. While the IT hub has successfully managed to put itself
on the global map, there’s no refuting that Karnataka in itself has
great potential and is pegged as India’s preferred destination for
professional education owing to myriad reasons. As per Karnataka
State Education Policy, ‘ the state is also now globally acclaimed for
its mammoth growth in the higher technology arena and as manu-
facturing hub. Given this status, Karnataka at large aspires to rise
to greater heights so that its future generations can be assured of a
high-quality education that will equip them to take on effective po-sitions in state and national development processes.’ Could there
be a stor y behind Karnataka’s unprecedented growth? THE WEEK
delves deeper into why Karnataka indeed lives up to its repute of
being India’s most preferred destination for professional educa-
tion.
There are no coincidences. Leading science and technology in-
stitutions of the country i.e. Visvesvaraya Technological University
(VTU), Manipal, Indian Institute Of Science and National Institute
Of Technology among several others continue to reign supreme as
some of the most preferred educational institutions in the country.
And, there’s a reason behind hordes of wide-eyed youngsters
making a beeline to universities across the state. Speaking of the
same, Usha Rani Ramanathan, director, HRD, Cambridge Insti-
tute Of Technology, Bengaluru, avers, “Truly understandable that
Karnataka is known for being the base of professional education.has sprawled about 30 acres of land
with all facilities and is a self-contained
one. It has all connectivity of transpor-
tation. The campus is Network ena-
bled and Internet catering to roughly
6,000 students and staff, including
the faculty members. Dr. Ambedkar
Institute of Technology has achieved
163rd rank in the National Institutional
Ranking Framework (NIRF) and has
achieved ‘A’ category accredition by
NAAC and is also an Accredited insti-
tution by NBA. Dr AIT has been con-
sidered as a cost-effective institution
by supervisory authority. Because of
its inclusive character of the campus,
the institution has boys and girls stu-
dents with equal numbers, drawing
from different religions, and social
background across rural and urbanDr M. Mahadeva, Ph.D,
Secretary,
PVP Welfare Trust, BangaloreDr Ambedkar Institute of Technology
India. The campus has hostel facility
for boys and girls of the college sepa-
rately. The college has been enjoying
a good record of training and place-
ment activities and over 70 per cent
of the eligible students are recruited
regularly from the campus by mostly
the core companies of all the engi-
neering disciplines. Special coaching
for placements are being conducted
parallelly to all the students on a cost
sharing basis, especially on the com-
munication skill.
Dr AIT’ians, always enjoy serene
environment throughout their stay in
the campus, highly skilled and pro-
fessional faculty members with over
20 years of retention, on an average
have made the dreams of the students
a reality.Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology
is one of the prominent institutions un-
der PVP Welfare Trust established al-
most four decades ago. The Campus