Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) in collaboration with German multinational conglomerate, Siemens, will be setting up six centres of excellence (COE) clusters across the State in the next few months.
The COEs will be set up in engineering colleges or universities, and each of the six COE will have five technical skills development institute (t-SDI) to make a cluster.
Addressing a gathering of principals and officials from various engineering colleges located in the three districts of Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram here on Tuesday, Managing Director and CEO of APSSDC Ghanta Subbarao, said that the COE will work in the ‘hub and spokes’ model. “We have a young population of about 70 crores, but most of the students who pass out from engineering colleges, polytechnic institutes and ITIs, lack employability skills. The model was developed to bridge that gap and make our students globally competitive and employable,” said COO of APSSDC Avnish Kumar.
“The global requirement of skilled man force by 2020 exceeds 47 millions and to become the global supplier of skilled man force, we need to produce skilled professionals,” Rahul Sehgal of Siemens said.
Partnership mode
According to Dr. Subba Rao, the programme has been just initiated and colleges and universities are being sensitised. “They have to apply and based on certain criteria and audit, they will be selected to run a COE or t-SDI,” he said.
The COE model is being developed on a partnership basis wherein the State Government will fund to the tune of 10 per cent and remaining 90 per cent will be borne by Siemens.
Centres of excellence to be set up by APSSDC in collaboration with Siemens
Centres of excellence to come up in State
