Firms to be roped-in to conduct campus interviews

Updated on: Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Bangalore: The Karnataka Government has decided to rope-in firms to conduct campus interviews in its colleges and polytechnics to ensure job opportunities to students to enable them be on par with their counterparts in private professional colleges.

Hitherto companies concentrated on private colleges to choose their manpower and those studying in government colleges were denied the opportunities, Higher Education Minister Aravind Limbavali told a press conference here.

To make education inclusive and proactive, the government was launching many programmes for students, which includes 'aptamitra', to ensure collaboration between private colleges and government to mutally exchange expertise, infrastructure and other resources to provide quality education to all
students, he said.

'Sahayog', a public-private partnership to help students equip themselves with soft skills and job skills and 'Samparka', a unique initiative to enhance computer literacy and cyber connectivity among government college students will also be launched, he said.

All these programmes will be launched by Chief Minister B S Yeddyruappa tomorrow, he said. The government has also decided to provide free internet facility to 100 colleges, he said. 'Angla' programme will be initiated to help rural students learn communicative English, he added.

Firms to be roped-in to conduct campus interviews

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