In an initiative to provide the best employment opportunities, Patna University (PU) is likely to tie up with various industries soon with a view to making its curriculum more useful for society and securing placement for its pass-outs.

A decision to this effect has already been taken by the internal quality assurance cell (IQAC) of the university.
Giving details of the proposed academia-industry linkage, PU vice-chancellor Girish Kumar Chaudhary told this newspaper that by infusing industry-based skills into education, the university would ensure that students gain practical knowledge and graduate with a holistic view of the specializations. The university would make formal collaborations with industries in the areas of curriculum development, teaching and learning, research and development, consultancy as well as securing suitable industrial placements for students, he said.

The VC further pointed out that the Bihar Industries Association (BIA) has assured of extending its full cooperation and help to the university in fostering academia-industry linkage. The university would organize a daylong workshop to interact with the leaders of different industries and discuss ways for establishing tie-up with them.

The university runs dozens of job-oriented courses under self-financing mode, but the passouts of these courses fail to get suitable employment in absence of any formal tie-up with the industries. Now, after formalization of collaborations, the industries would not only train the students according to their needs but also absorb them with suitable pay package, he said.

Chaudhary said the incubation centres set up in different colleges of PU would be made fully functional so that students might be encouraged to come up with their startup ideas and implement them effectively. All the postgraduate departments would set up their own placement cells by establishing linkage with industries so that the students may be placed suitably in different organizations after completing their course. Students of commerce and computer applications would be asked to lend their expertise to the university employees in promotion of their skills of accountancy and computations, said the VC.

The existing placement cell would be strengthened by allocating necessary staff and infrastructural facilities and made more effective, he added.

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