SU to start in-house vehicle repair workshop

  • | Thursday | 4th October, 2018

Roger Motors and Kataria Motors will help create the workshop and send their staff to teach the students.Initially, the workshop will start with cars discarded by the university. Two big car dealers have agreed to support the initiative.The university claims it is the first in the state to launch a workshop of this kind to provide practical training throughout the year. H N Pandya, head of the department of electronics said, “Most service centres and big garages used to ignore our requests to accept our students as interns. So, we decided to create our own workshop so that students can get hands-on training throughout the year.”University sources said the students will be provided detailed training in automobile repairs – from fixing punctures of tubeless tyres to handling engine and wiring problems. Sources said the university will also request employees and the public to give old cars to the workshop for training.“We will give students an opportunity to “earn while you learn” and request staff members to give their cars to our students for repairing.

Rajkot: To provide hands-on training in automobile repairing to students of PG electronics and also to provide an “earn while you learn” opportunity, the Saurashtra University is setting up an automobile workshop.The university has given in-principle approval to the proposal submitted by the electronics department and sanctioned a budget of Rs 25 lakh. Two big car dealers have agreed to support the initiative.The university claims it is the first in the state to launch a workshop of this kind to provide practical training throughout the year. H N Pandya, head of the department of electronics said, “Most service centres and big garages used to ignore our requests to accept our students as interns. So, we decided to create our own workshop so that students can get hands-on training throughout the year.”University sources said the students will be provided detailed training in automobile repairs – from fixing punctures of tubeless tyres to handling engine and wiring problems. Roger Motors and Kataria Motors will help create the workshop and send their staff to teach the students.Initially, the workshop will start with cars discarded by the university. Sources said the university will also request employees and the public to give old cars to the workshop for training.“We will give students an opportunity to “earn while you learn” and request staff members to give their cars to our students for repairing. The training will help our students to get easy placements after they get their degree,” Pandya added.Praising the initiative, Pandya said, “We are the first university in the state to start an automobile workshop to give practical training to students.”There are four semesters in PG electronics – a student in fourth semester is required to get practical training, but once the workshop starts students from first semester, too, will be able to avail practical training while learning theory in class.

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