<p>In an effort to provide industrial exposure to polytechnic students, the State government has decided to tap into the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities of major multinational companies.<br /><br /></p>.<p>On Wednesday, as part of this initiative, Minister for Higher Education R V Deshpande and Toyota Motors Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding to provide a one-year cert-ificate course for mech-anical and automobile engineering students from the government polytechnic in Joida, Uttara Kannada district.<br /><br />Second initiative<br /><br />This will be Toyota Motors’ second such initiative, the first being its ongoing admin-istrative support to the Government CPC Polytechnic College in Mysore. Toyota, reportedly, would also be looking at absorbing students from these institutes after they clear the certificate programme.<br /><br />The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) and the Higher Education department are now planning to expand this opportunity to other polytechnic students in various fields. <br /><br />Certification Programme<br /><br />According to H U Talwar, director of DTE, the government is already in talks with software giant Microsoft for providing global level online certification programme to students in the government polytechnic in Soraba. <br /><br />However, the talks are in initial stages, he added.<br /><br />He said the DTE was planning to approach other corporates to boost employment opportunities for students. <br /><br />The department has also spoken with the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay on training students in communication skills, he added.<br /><br />It is estimated that Karnataka has over 45,000 polytechnic students studying various disciplines of engineering. <br /></p>
<p>In an effort to provide industrial exposure to polytechnic students, the State government has decided to tap into the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities of major multinational companies.<br /><br /></p>.<p>On Wednesday, as part of this initiative, Minister for Higher Education R V Deshpande and Toyota Motors Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding to provide a one-year cert-ificate course for mech-anical and automobile engineering students from the government polytechnic in Joida, Uttara Kannada district.<br /><br />Second initiative<br /><br />This will be Toyota Motors’ second such initiative, the first being its ongoing admin-istrative support to the Government CPC Polytechnic College in Mysore. Toyota, reportedly, would also be looking at absorbing students from these institutes after they clear the certificate programme.<br /><br />The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) and the Higher Education department are now planning to expand this opportunity to other polytechnic students in various fields. <br /><br />Certification Programme<br /><br />According to H U Talwar, director of DTE, the government is already in talks with software giant Microsoft for providing global level online certification programme to students in the government polytechnic in Soraba. <br /><br />However, the talks are in initial stages, he added.<br /><br />He said the DTE was planning to approach other corporates to boost employment opportunities for students. <br /><br />The department has also spoken with the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay on training students in communication skills, he added.<br /><br />It is estimated that Karnataka has over 45,000 polytechnic students studying various disciplines of engineering. <br /></p>
