MITS Communication 2014/Awareness Program on NSDC STAR Project Programme/ 21 April 2014
Dr K.Sreenivasa Reddy
MADANAPALLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
Accredited by NBA
Recognized under section 2(f) & 12(B) of the UGC act 1956
World Bank funded Institute
Recognized Research Centre under JNTU
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi & Affiliated to JNTUA, Anantapur
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Dr U.CHANDRASEKHAR
DIRECTOR
Engineering Staff College of India
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Dr. U. Chandrasekhar is an engineering professional wit about 25 years of experience in various activities related to design, analysis, testing and project management domains. Currently he is the Additional Director of a Gas Turbine Research Establishment. He received his graduation and post graduation degrees in mechanical engineering. He received PhD in computer aided design based prototyping technology. He has also received advanced diploma in management. He was trained in Germany, UK and Belgium in advanced technologies.He is on advisory board of two technological universities and also he serves in the management council of several engineering institutions. Through this role, he is creating a nation-wide network among numerous engineering institutions for taking up funded R&D projects. He played a key role in starting the operations of NAFEMS, UK operations in India. Currently he serves as the National Vice President of NAFEMS, a role through which he is carrying out training and certification programs for engineers involved in analysis and simulation domains. He was elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers in the year 2007. He is on the editorial board of the international RP journal. He received Gold Medal from former President of India Dr. AP J Abdul Kalam for academic achievements. He received commendation medal from the Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister in recognition of his contributions to rapid manufacturing of complex aeronautical systems. Under the aegis of the Institution of Engineers, he conducted numerous international and national conferences in several parts of the country. He has delivered invited talks at Canada, Singapore, Greece, Malaysia, Germany, Hong Kong and UK.
An awareness programme on NSDC star project programmes was conducted in MITS, to MBA students by Dr U. Chandra Sekhar on April 21-4-2014. Dr. Chandra sekhar detailed on the significance of NSDC projects, which plays a key role in shaping their career. At forenoon session, he had an interaction with senior staff on research initiatives which is need of the hour. He explained about, NSDC and STAR as follows.
The scheme that is branded as STAR (Standard Training Assessment and Reward) aims to encourage skill development for youth by providing monetary rewards for successful completion of approved training programmes. According to NSDC, there are as many as 2,393 training centres pan India, out of which 1,708 belong to NSDC. As many as 685 are non-NSDC centres. As of November 21, the total trainee enrolments in the STAR scheme stood at 11,823, of which as many as 1,279 have completed the training programme. "The training target for current financial year FY 2013-14 is 10 lakh individuals," National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) Managing Director and CEO Dilip Chenoy told PTI. Chenoy further said that such skill development programme would help in bridging the gap between the service sector, the manufacturing sector and the levels of education that is meted out to the students in this country. Through this scheme, NSDC aims to standardize the certification process and initiate a process of creating a registry of skills; and increase productivity of the existing workforce besides aligning the training and certification to the needs of the country. They provide monetary awards for skill certification to boost employability and productivity of youth. This is through skill trainings incentives for candidates undergoing such training by authorised institutions at an average monetary reward of Rs 10,000 per candidate. Elaborating further, He said the higher one gets certified, the more rewards one would get.
He focused on the areas of retailing and telecom sectors which have growing importance in present scenario. He further explained to the students, how to apply, conduct, certify and employable. Most of the students expressed keen interest to take part in the programme. ESCIL would be the knowledge partner in training the students on NSDC project programme. Trainers for the programmes are from ESCIL only, which assures quality-oriented training. The resource person also stated that his support would be there always for the smooth conduct of the programmes.
INTERACTION SESSION ON RESEARCH INITIATIVES
Dr.U.Chandrasekhar called all the Senior faculty members of MITS for a meeting to discuss about the writing of proposals to ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has evolved a program through which financial support is provided for conducting Research and Developmental activities related to Space Science, Space Technology and Space Application. This program of Research sponsored by ISRO is called RESPOND. With reference to the above, ISRO invite all the universities and Institutions to participate in R&D programs of ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore through RESPOND program. Universities/Institutions may submit their research proposal in fields / areas relevant to the activities of ISRO Satellite Centre. The thrust areas under RESPOND program were also discussed in the meeting.
There was also a discussion about the procedure to write a proposal to various funding agencies. He gave brief information about funding agency called Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC). Under this program, he suggested to prepare at least 5 brilliant ideas from the department / various departments and apply for IEDC. He suggested nominating 5 MBA students to collect the relevant information from each department which is necessary to fill the proposal. His next visit will be on the last week of May 2014. He recommended the faculty members to finalize the process to apply for IEDC at the end of June 2014.
At the end , IIIC co-ordinator Mr.P.Rayudu expressed his sincere thanks to honorable correspondent & secretary and beloved principal for providing such a great opportunity to get aware of the programmes on latest trends of training areas for the benefit of the students and to enhance the research knowledge on the thrust areas.
Dr.K.Sreenivasa ReddyB.Tech.,M.E.,Ph.D.,MISTE.,FIE.,MIAENGPrincipalMadanapalle Institute of Technology & ScienceMadanapalle - 517 325,A.P.INDIA(Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh)Cell:09160020789,9849794277Ph:(RES):08571-226499Ph:(OFF):08571-280255 EXTN: 114