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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.
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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”.
