Title:- Empowering students on panorama of activities under the umbrella of CIIE (Centre for innovation incubation & entrepreneurship)

Response:-

Keeping this in view the upgrading trend in the education sector and future challenges the organization aimed to equip the proactive students with necessary skills and capacities through our various active cells of the college. Its mission is to provide facilities and promote the underprivileged society of the pupil residing in and around Eluru through educational initiatives and skill development programs. The intent of the College is to better understand the education and employability issues at the grass root level. The organization builds corporate and NGO partnerships for sustainable development.

The college has set up a Skill Development Centre, Capacity Building Centre and Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). The unemployed youth and students of other colleges are also invited to participate in the placements. The Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) has come forwarded to have a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the college and established a centre by naming it as Employability Skills Centre (ESC) in the year 2018. The Corporation regularly conducts various Skill Development Programmes (online and offline) with the schedule framed by the college.

A tailor made programmes are designed in collaboration with APITA (MoU with AP information technology Academy) for Soft skills, Communication Skills, Entrepreneur skill and Personality Development programmes. Department of English and Department of Computer Sciences are organizing training on Value added courses on Soft Skills. In addition to this Placement cell is conducting regularly career counseling sessions in association with departments and invited lectures Women Empowerment Cell provides training to girl students to empower them in various skills such as Artificial Jewelry Making (Roled gold), Tailoring, Food & Nutrition etc. Women empowerment Cell is acting as linkage with Union Bank of India Rural Self Employment Training Institute; with this they are conducting good number of programmes to promote entrepreneurs and startups in the area of fashion design, glass painting, embroidery etc.

The CIIE included in strategic plan has primarily the following functions:-

1. Training the selected students by the Depts. for preparing innovative project with the preoccupied/ directed knowledge of scientific skill, entrepreneurial in nature.

2. Organizing multifarious activities to broaden the concept of startup/ incubation and other initiatives.

3. Conducting career counseling, coaching for competitive exams, coaching for higher studies and other related activities.

4. Arranging training sessions exclusively for conducting placement drives and preparing the students or the models required for placement employment opportunities.

5. Digital empowerment of students towards major digital interventions in higher education (NEP- 2020) viz. SWAPAM, SAMARTH, visual labs, swayam prabha, online learning, NDLI, social media etc.

Career Guidance and Placement Cell activity supports the tag line of the Career Guidance and Placement Cell “STEP IN AS STUDENT AND STEP OUT WITH A JOB”. Placement Cell of the college is maintaining a good rapport with the HR managers belonging to Pharma, Information Technology (IT), Banking, Insurance, Corporate Educational Institutions and. Significant placements from MSN Laboratories, Divis Laboratories, HETERO Drugs, Indian Immunological Limited (IIL), Nexgen, Liee technologies, Tata consultancy services, TCS, SYnter, Infosys, WIPRO, Capgemini, DXC technologies, Global One services, Cloude mellow & LLP technologies, Mphasis, HCL are examples of functional efficiency of the cell. In addition to this various foundations and charitableorganizations viz., Naandi Foundation, contribute their valuable services infinetuning of the students career in the form of training programmes, financial assistance like sponsoringmerit scholarships etc., Naandi Foundation involved in conducting the training programmes in both online and offline mode to the registered candidates from the college in association with the APSSDC through Employability Skills Centre (ESC).

Employability Skills Centre furnished with necessary IT infrastructure like Laptops, Tabs, Printer, Display Monitors, Solar Panel System, Internet Connectivity, Surveillance CC cameras TV etc., intended to student training programmes for UG and PG students.

In connection to this the college management contributed one e-class room with a projector, computer systems, Internet connection of 4mbps speed, Audio System (Lectron), 50 seating capacity furniture; one class room with 50 seating capacity and one computer lab equipped with two air conditions with Uninterrupted Power System (UPS). Employability Skills Centre offers training various areas like Amazon Web Services (AWC), Soft Skills, Networking and Hardware, Python, Campus Recruitment Training Programmes etc., in Online and Offline mode considering the college academic time table.

Career Guidance & Placement Cell strengthened with a team of training members from the departments of English, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Commerce, actively participating in various training programmes like Letter Series, Coding and Decoding, Ms-Office, Aptitude, analytical skills, Interview and Communication Skills, Tally ERP with GST, Personality Development and Interview Preparations, Mock Interviews etc., The cell headed by Chairman (Principal of the college) with an advisory members having Vice-principal and Placement officer  continuously monitor the activities of the cell and conducting periodical meetings by involving the members of the cell for the proposals and resolutions with respect to various training, campus recruitment and other programmer framed.

We believe that, the dedicated and qualified staff members supported by enthusiastic student community will definitely benefit and upgrade the ultimate stakeholders of the college to make their future brighter and colorful through this “Capacity Building Center”.