Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 26: Under its Employability Enhancement Training Programme, AICTE is signing an MoU with BSNL to use the training facilities and faculty of BSNL for the benefit of students in AICTE approved institutions.
The MoU will be signed tomorrow by Chairman, AICTE and CMD, BSNL in presence of HRM, Government of India, Dr M M Pallam Raju in his office at Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi.
These programs will focus on practical hands-on training in field / lab work supplemented with structured academic content that is currently being provided online and can be supplemented with appropriate theory sessions in academic intuitions / colleges. Practical sessions shall be held in the weekends or other times in flexi-mode that shall expose the students to various state of art telecom equipment and their operation.
Academic content will focus on the various operational procedures / facets of the telecom equipment / technologies present in the BSNL network related to practical aspects in an attempt to provide the students with high end equipment handling practical skills as opposed to rote learning.
The training will be provided through 44 training centres of BSNL, spread across the country.
The students to be trained under the scheme shall be finalized by AICTE for each centre. The Project cost is approximately to be Rs 15 crore and is expected to train 15000 students.
More than 100 training centres of ILFS spread across the Country, are expected to provide facilities in the areas of Communications, Automobiles and Construction sectors and train more than a million students under NVEQF.
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