Metro India News | Hyderabad 

Young India Skills University, Telangana organized a Consultative Workshop with Government Degree Colleges (Autonomous) on Saturday at Hotel Taj Vivanta.  

Around 40 Principals and Vice-Principals of 33 autonomous government degree colleges all over Telangana participated in the workshop. The objective of this workshop was to examine mechanisms to introduce skill integrated education into Autonomous Government Degree Colleges so as to equip the students of such colleges with industry-led, employable skills to make them industry-ready. 

Vice Chancellor V L V S S Subba Rao chaired the workshop and gave a detailed presentation on the activities of YISU and the possible methods of course and programme affiliation of courses with like provision of one classroom in each college, facilitation of faculty by college or of YISU running the course end-to-end with curriculum, training and internship support through industry. The college principals were enthused by the idea and approach suggested by the Vice Chancellor as it would result in greater employability of their students. 

The principals further suggested that matters of course affiliation, offering a variety of apprenticeship-based degree courses etc. would need to be taken up with the Department of Higher Education so that an official communication is issued to both the colleges as well as their affiliating Universities.  This is a dispensation to be sought exclusively for skill and apprenticeship-based courses so that a decentralized system is established for skill education around the catchment areas of students to maximize student outcomes.

It was agreed that the matter would be pursued with the State Education Department by YISU. Chaman Mehta, OSD and Registrar In charge, YISU, Dr. Bala Bhaskar, Academic Guidance Officer, Commissionerate of College Education, Prof. Yadagiri and Prof. Rajendra Singh, Joint Directors, CCE participated in the event and added inputs.