Mahindra Satyam, TVS Motors begin Punjab Placement Fest at CGC Gharuan

Dr Amarbir Singh, Secretary, Punjab State Board of Technical Education & Industrial Training, lighting the ceremonial lamp at the inauguration of Punjab Placement Fest as Mr NPS Lamba, Director, Academics PSBTE&IT, Ms Sita K.M. from Mahendra Satyam and Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chairman CGC look on.

 

  by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)

MOHALI, MARCH 12

 In an initiative aimed at facilitating placement for nearly 60,000 polytechnic diploma holders and ITI trained students passing-out this year in Punjab, a month-long job fest sponsored by Punjab State Board of Technical Education & Industrial Training (PSBTE&IT) and Chandigarh Group of Colleges (CGC) today started with Mahindra Satyam and TVS Motors beginning the recruitment exercise at CGC’s Gharuan campus.

 Inaugurating the job fest, Dr Amarpal Singh, Secretary, Punjab State Board of Technical Education & Industrial Training, said the placement festival has been spread over a month with more than 25 top companies carrying out the recruitment exercise. “We deliberately avoided calling too many companies for just two days since we preferred serious recruitment process instead of mere hype,” Dr Singh said.

 Among companies slated to participate in the job fest are top brands like Tata Motors, Hero Cycles, Claas Auto, Preet Tractors, Solitaire Infosys, Cheema Boilers, Rockman Industries, Swaraj Mazda etc. CGC Chairman Satnam Singh Sandhu said the effort was to call core companies for placement.
Students from across Punjab pursuing various streams in polytechnic and ITI came in their thousands to CGC Gharuan campus to be part of the recruitment drive.

 Mr NPS Lamba, Director, Academics in the PSBTE&IT said while today’s recruitment saw Mechanical and Computer stream passing out students participating in the job fest, students from other streams like Civil and IT too will be benefitting as more companies come for placement during the job fest. He said placements in polytechnic colleges were not working proactively, so this job fest will be of great help to not just recent pass-out batch but also to older students looking for new jobs.

 Dr Amarpal Singh said an increasing number of students are evincing interest in polytechnic and ITIs. “It is clear from the fact that nearly 42,000 forms for JET have been sold so far and we expect to finally clock a figure of 60,000,” he said, adding the Board has also made schemes for enhancing teachers’ training skills.

 From multi-national corporations (MNCs) to local companies, a veritable array of firms have joined hands to pick up talent from the job fest.

 CGC Chairman Sandhu said while the number of students passing out from polytechnic colleges and ITIs was more than 60,000 annually, job placement efforts for these students are negligible. “We are committed to ensure that students from Punjab get placements, and this month-long job fest is a step in that direction,” he said.

 Dr Amarpal Singh said PSBTE&IT has taken a unique initiative to tie-up with the University of Ballarat (UB), Australia's only regional multi-sector university and the third oldest site of higher learning in Australia. He said this tie-up will enable students to take lateral admission in second year of engineering course in UB, Australia.

 “At a time when industry needs a lot of skilled hands, and more than 60,000 pass out from polytechnics and ITIs every year, we want to be the bridge to ensure that Punjab’s boys and girls do not remain jobless,” Mr Sandhu said.

 Chandigarh Polytechnic College Principal Gurmeet Singh Swag said interested students can register at CGC’s website www.cgc.edu.in or PSBTE & IT website www.punjabteched.com free of cost as there is no fee for registration. The students will be shortlisted by the board.

 Rashpal Dhaliwal, President CGC said, “CGC would not only bear the full cost of inviting, hosting and providing transportation, boarding, and lodging to the interested companies but also foot the bill for organizing the Placement Fest”.

MOHALI: In an initiative aimed at facilitating placement for nearly 60,000 polytechnic diploma holders and ITI trained students passing-out this year in Punjab, a month-long job fest sponsored by Punjab State Board of Technical Education & Industrial Training (PSBTE&IT) and Chandigarh Group of Colleges (CGC) today started with Mahindra Satyam and TVS Motors beginning the recruitment exercise at CGC’s Gharuan campus.

 Inaugurating the job fest, Dr Amarpal Singh, Secretary, Punjab State Board of Technical Education & Industrial Training, said the placement festival has been spread over a month with more than 25 top companies carrying out the recruitment exercise. “We deliberately avoided calling too many companies for just two days since we preferred serious recruitment process instead of mere hype,” Dr Singh said.

 Among companies slated to participate in the job fest are top brands like Tata Motors, Hero Cycles, Claas Auto, Preet Tractors, Solitaire Infosys, Cheema Boilers, Rockman Industries, Swaraj Mazda etc. CGC Chairman Satnam Singh Sandhu said the effort was to call core companies for placement.
Students from across Punjab pursuing various streams in polytechnic and ITI came in their thousands to CGC Gharuan campus to be part of the recruitment drive.

 Mr NPS Lamba, Director, Academics in the PSBTE&IT said while today’s recruitment saw Mechanical and Computer stream passing out students participating in the job fest, students from other streams like Civil and IT too will be benefitting as more companies come for placement during the job fest. He said placements in polytechnic colleges were not working proactively, so this job fest will be of great help to not just recent pass-out batch but also to older students looking for new jobs.

 Dr Amarpal Singh said an increasing number of students are evincing interest in polytechnic and ITIs. “It is clear from the fact that nearly 42,000 forms for JET have been sold so far and we expect to finally clock a figure of 60,000,” he said, adding the Board has also made schemes for enhancing teachers’ training skills.

 From multi-national corporations (MNCs) to local companies, a veritable array of firms have joined hands to pick up talent from the job fest.

 CGC Chairman Sandhu said while the number of students passing out from polytechnic colleges and ITIs was more than 60,000 annually, job placement efforts for these students are negligible. “We are committed to ensure that students from Punjab get placements, and this month-long job fest is a step in that direction,” he said.

 Dr Amarpal Singh said PSBTE&IT has taken a unique initiative to tie-up with the University of Ballarat (UB), Australia's only regional multi-sector university and the third oldest site of higher learning in Australia. He said this tie-up will enable students to take lateral admission in second year of engineering course in UB, Australia.

 “At a time when industry needs a lot of skilled hands, and more than 60,000 pass out from polytechnics and ITIs every year, we want to be the bridge to ensure that Punjab’s boys and girls do not remain jobless,” Mr Sandhu said.

Chandigarh Polytechnic College Principal Gurmeet Singh Swag said interested students can register at CGC’s website www.cgc.edu.in or PSBTE & IT website www.punjabteched.com free of cost as there is no fee for registration. The students will be shortlisted by the board.

 Rashpal Dhaliwal, President CGC said, “CGC would not only bear the full cost of inviting, hosting and providing transportation, boarding, and lodging to the interested companies but also foot the bill for organizing the Placement Fest”.