HYDERABAD: ‘‘The state government is keen on bridging the gap between educational institutions and industry. Creation of employment and building employable industry grade skills is the major concern to the government today and we are working towards it through Jawahar Knowledge Centers,’’ IT minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah has said.
Around 30 percent of engineering students passing out each year in the country are from Andhra Pradesh and hence these engineering graduates need to be trained to make them employable which can be achieved through Train the Trainer programme, the minister said.
The minister was speaking at the signing of an MoU by the AP Society for Knowledge Networks-Jawahar Knowledge Centre (JKC) with Autodesk inc, a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software at JNTU, Kukatpally on Friday.
The MoU was signed between Amarnath Reddy Atmakuri, chief executive officer, APSKN-JKC and Vincent Chong, head, training and certification, Autodesk Asia Pacific in the presence of Lakshmaiah.
The MoU will help in providing Autodesk software training to engineering students of JKCs in Andhra Pradesh. It will also facilitate the JKC students to utilise Autodesk software which is made available free-of-cost.
JKC students and faculty members can download the software and IEG-JKC will offer free training on the software to JKC students.
The training otherwise would cost about Rs 30,000 in private institutes. Autodesk will provide discipline-specific education software training, which include its flagship products AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Alias, Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya to all JKC Students.