The two-day premier education expo - ‘Eduverse,’ eighth edition of ‘Jnana Degula’ - opened in the city on Saturday.
It created a benchmark in professional guidance and set a perfect platform for aspiring students and anxious parents to clarify doubts related to higher education and their careers.
The event was hosted by Deccan Herald and Prajavani newspapers at Jayamahal Palace Hotel Grounds in the city. It concludes on Sunday.
The key speakers dwelt in detail on the counselling procedure for students who appeared for CET and ComedK exams. There was also a session on career development.
Briefing on post-CET procedures, A S Ravi, public relations officer of the Karnataka Examination Authority, stressed the importance of prioritising the course and colleges during online registration, which would play a major role during seat allotment. He gave the example of a student from Ramanagar who missed a chance to study in RV College as he failed to prioritise the course and college carefully.
Ravi asked the students to come to the nodal centres with the original documents, including a study certificate for seven years, signed by the block education officer. “Under reservation, a student can study engineering at Rs 3,500 a year, if he belongs to the SC/ST community, has studied in the Kannada medium, has a family income of less than Rs 6 lakh, belongs to the rural category and is from the Hyderabad-Karnataka region,” he said.
“Do not depend on last year’s cut-off marks. It only gives an idea to compare and analyse the rank. There is a chance to re-arrange the options after trial mark allotments,” Ravi said. Once the final seat allotment process is over, the student will have to download the challan from the website and pay the fees in the specified banks, he explained.
Earlier, Rama Rao, an observer of ComedK, briefed about the pre-counselling procedure for ComedK. Asking parents not to pressure students, he said seats are available to even those students who scored 40,000th rank. “It’s not important which college you join. If you are able to score above 80% marks in all semesters, career opportunities are more,” he told the students.
The reaction of participants was a testimony to the success of the event. Dr Tara Devi and her daughter Vaishnavi M, a student of Vidya Mandir Pre-University College, Malleswaram, said the speakers clarified all doubts related to CET and ComedK.
“It was a detailed discussion. Although the CET brochures detail the procedure, we were looking for information on how to go through the online procedure to apply,” she said.
9 cr jobs by 2025
In India, manufacturing sector has the potential to contribute to 25% of the GDP and this will enable in the creation of at least 9 crore new jobs by 2025, said M N Vidyashankar, ex-IAS officer and president of the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association. He was delivering the inaugural address at Eduverse. Vidyashankar said the civil engineering stream had the potential to create 9.5 lakh new jobs in the next five years, while the telecom sector would create 7 lakh jobs. There are similar opportunities in life sciences and biotechnology.
Hailing the central government’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Stand-Up India’ initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, Vidyashankar said, “The environment for job creation in India is better than anywhere in the world.” He gave the example of some of the finest startup ventures started in Bengaluru and one in Israel and encouraged the students to come up with novel ideas to solve problems.
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