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and paid stipends of Rs.13,000- work goals. SGSU’s
15,000 per month, earning-while- mission is to bridge the
learning. Since then, TLU claims to academia-industry gap
have placed 1 million apprentices in through curriculums
over 150 job roles in sectors such as designed in close co-
hospitality, education, healthcare, operation with industry,
pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, re- flexible work-integrated
tail, construction, logistics, automo- degree programmes and
tive, etc, under the TLDA programme incubation support to
with a transition rate of 98 percent start-ups. We have al-
into formal employment. ready designed and in-
P from the TLU-Gujarat programmes anchored
troduced several degree
ERHAPS TAKING A CUE
by well-reputed industry
government skills devel-
our B.Tech data science
opment model, several AISECT's Santosh Choubey (centre) & Chaturvedi (right) partners. For instance,
state governments and progressive degree programme is
edupreneurs have promoted higher to dispense skills-based training to designed in partnership with IBM;
education skilling institutions. Among 2 million youth by 2029. Under this BBA in hospitality and restaurant
them: Vishwakarma Skills University, partnership, AISECT provides short- management with the National Res-
Palwal (Haryana, estb.2016); Delhi term certificate and diploma pro- taurants Association of India and two
Skill and Entrepreneurship Univer- grammes in ‘focused trades’ includ- diploma programmes in automobile
sity (2020); Assam Skill University ing computer hardware maintenance, engineering in collaboration with
(2021); Kaushalya Skill University, hardware and networking, livelihood Hero Motors and Hyundai,” says
Gujarat (2021); state government- & vocational training, banking, finan- Siddharth Chaturvedi, Director of
run Maharashtra State Skills Univer- cial services & insurance, agriculture, the AISECT Group and Chancellor of
sity (2022); Seacom Skills University, teacher training, marketing & retail, SGSU. Spread across a state-of-the-
West Bengal (2014); Medhavi Skills apparel & textiles, tourism & hospi- art 25-acre campus in Bhopal, SGSU
University, Sikkim (2021) and the tality, telecom, beauty & wellness and has signed up 800 students within ten
private sector Lamrin Tech Skill Uni- construction. months.
versity, Punjab (2022). “There’s huge and rising demand Another pioneer skills develop-
Arguably the most promising of the for professionally delivered skills ment-focused private higher educa-
new crop of skilling institutions, which education. While AISECT universi- tion institution is Centurion Uni-
if they are successful could spark a ties have always focused on providing versity, Bhubaneswar (estb.2010)
great and much needed productivity industry-oriented degree programmes promoted by visionary educationist
leap in India Inc, is the privately pro- with skilling courses as electives and Dr. Mukti Kant Mishra. Centurion
moted SCOPE Global Skills Univer- short-term diploma programmes, we offers its students traditional three/
sity, Bhopal (SGSU) of the AISECT discerned a need for a specialist skills four-year degree programmes with
Group. AISECT owns and/or manages university to meet the demand for the option to sign up for several skill-
five skills-focused universities includ- industry-aligned education and train- based courses as electives. Moreover,
ing CV Raman University in Bilaspur ing. Therefore, last year we promoted it also runs a full-fledged School of
(Chhattisgarh); Rabindranath Tagore the SCOPE Global Skills University as Vocational Training providing short-
University, Bhopal; AISECT Univer- India’s first higher education institu- term certificate and diploma pro-
sity, Hazaribagh (Jharkhand); Dr. tion aligned with NEP 2020 and the grammes in several trades and voca-
C.V. Raman University, Vaishali (Bi- National Skills Qualification Frame- tions in its learning centres in Odisha,
har) and Dr. C.V. Raman University in Andhra Pradesh and Assam.
Khandwa (Madhya Pradesh). Following the TeamLease- A major contributory factor boost-
Established in 1985 by NIT-Bhopal ing skills education countrywide is the
alum and skilling evangelist Santosh Gujarat model, several state revamp and restructuring of NSDC,
Kumar Choubey, the AISECT (All governments and enlightened which is pulling out all stops to dis-
India Society for Electronics & Com- seminate NSDC-certified skilling pro-
puter Technology) Group has also edupreneurs have promoted grammes in partnership with properly
partnered with the Central govern- higher education skilling vetted higher education institutions.
ment’s National Skill Development Promoted in 2008 as a joint Cen-
Corporation (NSDC) and set a target institutions tral government and India Inc enter-

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