New Delhi:
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), in association with the internship and training platform, Internshala, conducted the Internship Day Ceremony on the twenty-fifth of August at the AICTE Headquarters in New Delhi. The event was attended by Dr. Satya Pal Singh, Minister of State (MHRD), Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, AICTE Chairman, and different esteemed dignitaries from AICTE at the side of 170 Training and Placement heads from AICTE-affiliated faculties throughout India.
The occasion was organized to honor well-known schools that’ve made brilliant efforts in assisting their students easily with internships from April to July. Eight thousand hundred students from AICTE-affiliated schools landed an internship via Internshala in the summer of 2018.
Manipal Institute of Technology, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, and Chandigarh University are the three colleges with great internship facts. Over 40 colleges have also been felicitated at some stage in the rite for unique categories like zonal-degree winners, most revolutionary faculties, and great mentions.
The Minister of State (MHRD) and Chief Guest of the occasion, Dr. Satya Pal Singh, discussed the importance of practical gaining knowledge via internships throughout distinct domains, specifically within India’s rural regions. He preferred the efforts made using AICTE to improve students’ employability by taking diverse steps, including mandating internships for all the students enrolled in AICTE-accepted academic establishments. Additionally, he counseled the contributions made by using Internshala to grow awareness around internships.
The AICTE chairman, Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, welcomed the T&P heads on 1st Internship Day and said, “Through internships, students might get more exposure to the enterprise. Fulfilling students’ dreams throughout India is our duty, and we’ve taken more than one step in the direction of it, like updating the curriculum, innovation cells in each college, and instructor training programs. AICTE has taken up two key initiatives: Smart India Hackathon, via which college students furnished modern solutions, and any other become mandating internships for engineering college students. AICTE has also fashioned collaborations with Government bodies and companies to connect college students with more internship opportunities, resulting in 2-three lakh students landing an internship within 1 12 months.”
Dr. Neetu Bhagat, Dy. The director of AICTE shared the information on AICTE’s Internship Policy, which brings in more readability and shapes India’s internship state of affairs for students and college communities. Dr. M. P. Poonia, Vice Chairman, AICTE, and Dr. Neeraj Saxena, Adviser-II (P&AP Bureau), additionally spoke at the occasion. Megha Goel, Head – of HR, Godrej Agrovet, said on a need to bridge the industry-academia gap through a direct alignment of curriculum with industry expectancies, choosing greater internship possibilities and emphasizing competencies.
As a part of Internship Day, Internshala assisted all the colleges in providing their students with internship possibilities. Sarvesh Agrawal, CEO and founding father of Internshala, expressed heartfelt gratitude closer to the academics for their contributions and stated, “Today’s event is a tribute and a salute to the academics, teachers like you who work extremely tough just to look their college students succeed and grow to be accountable citizens of us of a. T&P in-costs adopt sizeable efforts to ensure each student is capable of building her dream profession and relaxed her destiny.”