AP State to hone tech skills among youth to get jobs

Rajamahendravaram: Advisor IT and special chief secretary to chief minister, J A Choudary has said the state government is making efforts to wipe out unemployment problem by generating jobs in IT sector.

Speaking to reporters at GIET Engineering College here on Thursday, he said every day many changes were taking place in technology field and the students were not able to cope with latest developments.

Though thousands of students graduating from colleges, many students were not having enough technological skills to get employment avenues, he said. With this the state government started corporate college concept by appointing mentors of various companies, he added.

As part of it, the respective companies appoint some of their employees and send them to identify colleges, he said and added they select 10-20 students and impart training and provide jobs to them. Many IT companies hailed the decision of state government, he said and added in the first phase, one college from each district will be selected and later the number also be increased.

Basic science was very important to any student which would be taken care by the respective mentors, he told. The new concept would be expanded on a war foot basis in the ensuing days, Choudary added.

GIET College of Engineering managing director K Sasi Kiran Varma said the college management welcomed the new initiative of the government and ready to accept any number of mentors for their students. He asked JA Choudary to spread the concept to all colleges in the state.