AIcTEflEcI INITIATIVE
december 2017 | dl.eletsonline.com
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to enhance
employabIlIty
of TEchNIcAL
GRAduATEs
The technical graduates should take advantage of the various schemes floated under
EcI-AIcTE joint initiatives to get exposure of the industry, says Dr p r swarup, Member
secretary, construction Industry development council, Engineering council of India (EcI), in
a conversation with Dipen pradhan of elets news network (enn).which is one of the major causes of increasing
unemployability among engineering and
management students in the nation. EcI shall be
facilitating hands on training/internship for these
graduates in their respective engineering stream
through its member associations. from academic
session 2017-18, AIcTE made internships
mandatory for engineering and management
students to obtain their degrees.How has been the response for
National Proficiency Evaluation Test
(NPET)?
The fine-tuning on the scheme is underway and
will be announced shortly. from initial discussionsHow the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) signed
between Engineering Council of
India (ECI) and All India Council of
Technical Education (AICTE) will
help technical graduates?
Engineering council of India (EcI) has entered
into a Mou with All India council for Technical
Education (AIcTE) for providing “internship” to
students in all disciplines of engineering and
management. The Mou is supposed to enhance
industry exposure of the engineering graduates
and make them employable.
This step is taken to bridge the skill gap
between industry requirement and academia