Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu (RYK) has come as a blessing for the rural engineering colleges where companies seldom visit for their placement drives.
The plans drawn by the Department of Technical Education (DTE) indicated that placement drives and job melas would be part of the RYK programme. So B.Tech graduates from rural colleges who register with RYK will have an opportunity to participate in the job melas to test their luck. The DTE has drawn up a calendar to interact with major sectors – IT, BPO, pharma, construction and refrigeration.
“Interaction with refrigeration sector is already over and they have promised to recruit around 2,000 candidates of which 1,000 will be picked up immediately. All these are high-end jobs meant for engineering graduates,” said S. Balasubramanyam, Commissioner, Technical Education. Meetings with all other industries will be completed by March 15 and the job melas will be completed by end of March.
Mr. Balasubramanyam says students from rural engineering colleges will benefit as they get a chance to participate in the recruitment drives of the IT companies through the RYK programmes.
More than 50,000 candidates have registered themselves for the RYK programme and the mapping of these candidates is on. Mapping will ensure that which candidate is suitable for which job and training will be provided to ensure that they are placed in the right sectors.
For handling this senior polytechnic teachers have been appointed to act as nodal officers between the applicants and the industry. These officers will ensure that candidates get right training and are placed apart from tracking how they are doing.
They will have information of candidates leaving midway or the recruiting company denying opportunities. They will be monitored for a year.
The 25 Skill Development Centres in polytechnics are being used for training while private players are also being engaged.
Mr. Balasubramanyam said the government has sanctioned Rs. 1 crore to them so far for training. As of now training for civil, mechanical and electrical engineering graduates and polytechnic candidates is on and training part includes soft skills and core domain skills.
