Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, MAY, 22
“With changing times and industry expectations, today’s youth is getting attracted towards emerging areas such as Cloud Computing, Business Analytics, Information Security, AI which shows that the student is aware about the changing trends in employment” said Dr. R.S.Bawa, Vice-Chancellor, Chandigarh University during a press conference at Jammu. Going beyond the scope of syllabus, today’s youth want to learn latest technologies, prepare themselves for the international standards and wants to become a job provider rather than just being a job seeker, he added. Understanding the expectations and aspirations of today’s youth, Dr. Bawa said, “Chandigarh University Gharuan has formulated a flexible choice based education system where they have option to choose from wide range of careers such as Campus Placements, Entrepreneurship, Going Abroad for Global Avenues or choosing research as a career option”. City beautiful Chandigarh and Punjab has proved to be safe & economical destination for pursuing higher education for the students from J&K, he added.
The Vice-Chancellor today announced academic scholarships worth Rs. 10 crores which will be offered through an All India Scholarship based Entrance Test, CU-SAT (Chandigarh University Scholarship and Admission Test) that is currently being conducted online across 19 states. The All India Entrance Test would offer scholarships to more than 800 students in more than 50 Under-Graduate and MBA programs offered at Chandigarh University. In addition, CU has offered 10% academic scholarship to the wards of school teachers and university/college professors of J&K state as a mark of respect for their contribution towards building strong future for the nation. While the University has continued 5% seats reservation in every course for the wards of serving/martyred defense personals. The University will offers academic scholarship upto 25% for the wards of the security/military/para-military forces who will be seeking admission in the various courses offered by the Chandigarh University.
The Vice-Chancellor informed media-persons that currently there are more than 1900 students from different parts of J&K who are studying at Chandigarh University which includes more than 1200 students from Jammu region. “The University has a regional office cum counseling center in Jammu and more than 3000 students from different parts of the state have taken career guidance from our team of professional career experts which shows that students from the region are well informed about the changing industry expectations and skills that are now available in market” Dr. Bawa added.
A team of professionals is available at University City Office through-out the year to help the students and guide them to choose their career after 10+2 or Graduation. The career counselling facility is available free-of-cost at Jammu City Office in which any matric, 10+2 or graduate student could walk-in for getting professional career guidance for which the student would undergo psychometric test based upon which they would be given Career Advisory Report that would help them to choose their field of interest.
“Students from Jammu region have shown brilliant performance in academics and campus placements 2018” said Chandigarh University Vice-Chancellor, Dr. R.S.Bawa. More than 350 students of Engineering, Management, Mass-Communication, Animation, Bio-Technology, Law and Hotel Management from Jammu & Kashmir have managed to bag 410 offer letters from top notch MNCs like Microsoft, IBM, Google, Amazon, Wipro, Cognizant, Bank of America and others during campus placements. There are more than 60 students from the region who have been selected by multiple companies during campus placements. “Students such as Arya Anand who is a Mechanical Engineering student from Jammu has created a record a campus placements by getting selected in 6 top notch MNCs which includes Wipro, Tech-Mahindra, MU-Sigma, Tata Technologies, Think & Learn and IBM” he said. Talking about other students from Kashmir, Dr. Bawa said “Uzar Ashraf a MBA student from Srinagar has been selected by DCB Bank, Alankit Industries and Talent Corner”.
Vice-Chancellor informed that students from the state of J&K are doing excellent work in the field of Research, Innovation and entrepreneurship. In the field of research, out of the total 390 patents filed during last 3 years by the students and faculty of Chandigarh University, 16 patents have been filed by the students from J&K. The patents filed by students of J&K included Anti Wheel Theft System for vehicles developed by Mechnical Engineering student, Amit Sharma from Katra and automatic notification system has been developed by Deepak from Jammu which would automatically send alert messages along with GPS location to the 5 number including Ambulance feed in the system in case of road accident of the vehicle.
There has been 8 new start-ups by students of Jammu & Kashmir at Chandigarh University Technology Business Incubator (CU-TBI) which have running successfully and hence showing the trait of the students from the state that they have the passion to be a job creator rather than a job seeker. Talking about some of the successful start-ups, Dr. Bawa said, “Simranpreet from Jammu has established a company named Smart Bi-cycles which will manufacture Bicycles that are very light in weight due to its single frame structure, added Dr. Bawa.
With an intention to provide them international exposure, Chandigarh University has tied with 220+ QS ranked Universities from USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Israel, EU and other 56 countries where through the semester exchange programs, summer internships, joint research initiatives and international campus placements the students can prepare themselves for the global challenges, Dr. Bawa added. In the year 2018, more than 1000 students from Chandigarh University have undertaken the benefits of the global tie-ups and have enhanced their learning by studying at top ranked universities of the world.
