BANGALORE: Ashish Y graduated in electronics and communications engineering in June 2013. He applied for a job in five IT companies in the city but was selected for none. The reason: companies found him to lack in some technical skills that were never part of his academic syllabus. But in less than a year, Ashish acquired the skills and landed a job too, thanks to a free-training-cum-placement programme launched by Visvesvaraya Technological University.
Like Ashish, every year around 45,000 of 60,000 graduates passing out VTU affiliated colleges found it difficult to get a job. Many of them would approach consultancies or else end up working in a sector not related to their stream of engineering.
That's when VTU came up with a novel idea to address the problems of its distraught graduates. Mission VTU: Empower 10,000, launched in August 2013, saw 28,000 engineering graduates enroll for it in one year. And 35 of the 37 students who enrolled for the first batch have landed jobs.
Like Ashish, every year around 45,000 of 60,000 graduates passing out VTU affiliated colleges found it difficult to get a job. Many of them would approach consultancies or else end up working in a sector not related to their stream of engineering.
That's when VTU came up with a novel idea to address the problems of its distraught graduates. Mission VTU: Empower 10,000, launched in August 2013, saw 28,000 engineering graduates enroll for it in one year. And 35 of the 37 students who enrolled for the first batch have landed jobs.
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