The Chhattisgarh Govern-ment has commenced the process to implement the ‘National Digital System’ (COSMOS) for various schools of the State, officials informed on Saturday.
The Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) is the nodal agency for implementation of the project.
CHiPS is involved in implementation of some mega IT Projects like e-District, eProcurement, SWAN, GIS, etc. A professional approach is being adopted for the implementation of IT Projects using the services of e-governance experts and consultants from corporate and academia, officials informed.
This apart, Chhattisgarh Government is setting up a ‘Centre of Excellence on Innovation and Technology in Education’ to manage the execution of Virtual Education Scheme with funding support from MEITY, Government of India. CHiPS has initiated the Virtual Education Scheme with funding support from MEITY, Government of India, officials informed.
The project envisages leveraging technology to improve student-learning outcomes, assisting teachers through ICT enabled classrooms, building teachers capacity using online and offline platforms for teacher training, creating and providing digital content for the entire education system and support the District-State administration with relevant, accurate and timely data to inform policy decisions.
The project will look at School Education, Higher Education, Technical Education and Vocational Education.
The Scheme offers to set up a learning management system which will provide content mapped with the state syllabus to be used by teachers and students. The project is coupled with ICT at schools scheme which has a focus on secondary and higher secondary schools.The Learning Management System will further be extended to colleges, vocational institutes and ITIs.
CHiPS is the nodal agency and prime mover for propelling IT growth & implementation of the IT & e-Governance projects in the State of Chhattisgarh.
The Chief Minister heads the High Powered Governing Council of CHiPS. It includes Minister for Finance & Commercial Taxes, Minister for Commerce & Industry, Minister for Education, Minister for Panchayat & Rural Development, Chief Secretary, eminent persons from IT industry and a representative from the Ministry of Information Technology in Government of India.
The Chhattisgarh government last year has also decided to launch an “Online Learning Platform" (OLP) to enable imparting of 'Virtual Education' in the State .
The OLP — a web-based software application for learning management will be deployed at Chhattisgarh State Data Centre in Raipur.
The services from the Online Learning Platform are to be provided to Schools, ITIs and Common Service Centres (CSCs) and to the students studying in various schools and colleges in Chhattisgarh.
The State Government had also recently launched an online portal for enabling online admissions in more than 214 colleges including universities in Chhattisgarh.
Notably, the State Higher Education Department in collaboration withCHiPS has developed a software titled ‘Software Empowerment through Technology Utilization)’ (SETU) which would enable online admissions in colleges.
The Chhattisgarh Government would also be setting up a Project Management Unit (PMU) for proper implementation of the ‘Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavalamban Yojana’.
The project is a major initiative taken by Chhattisgarh government to improve placement rates of fresh college graduates of three and four year degree courses in IT and ITeS sectors, officials informed.
The programme envisages providing training to students in such areas of aptitude that are required to successfully navigate the selection process of IT and BPM employers and secure placement. The training will be designed with a view to imparting in-demand skills and abilities in contemporary employment market.
The training will be delivered by leading trainers who will also make necessary arrangements for the employment opportunities for placing a minimum of 60% of the total students undergoing the training programme.
The Chhattisgarh Government will be hiring highly qualified system integrators for making assessment besides providing training and ensuring placement of fresh IT and ITeS graduates under the “Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavalamban Yojana”, officials informed.
The “Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavalamban Yojana” project is a major initiative taken by the Chhattisgarh Government aimed to improve placement rates of fresh college graduates of three and four year degree courses in IT and ITeS sectors.
The programme envisages providing training to students in such areas of aptitude that are required to successfully navigate the selection process of IT and BPM employers and secure placement. The training will be designed with a view on the in-demand skills and abilities in contemporary employment market.
The training will be delivered by leading trainers who will also make necessary arrangements for the employment opportunities for placing a minimum of 60% of the total students undergoing the training program.
Notably, Chhattisgarh has already established itself as a major educational hub with presence of premier institutions like NIT, IIM, NLU and AIIMS. It also, has many other world class educational institutions for professional programmes such as Engineering, MCA and MBA as well as in Humanities, Commerce and the Sciences, officials informed.
However, there is a gap between the number of students graduating and the number of students getting placed. There is a tangible gap between present state of aptitude and the required aptitude for getting selected in prestigious organisations, they informed.
Hence, there is a need to establish the platform which could increase the employment opportunities. It is an observed trend that most employers in IT and ITeS sector have rigorous training programmes that provide the necessary technical skills that are required to perform the jobs for which they hire. The focus, when these employers hire, is on assessing a range of abilities.
The general curriculum of our education system has been focussed on imparting technical skills. However, aptitude is an area which tends to get ignored and thus students from Chhattisgarh tend to lose out to fresh graduates from larger cities which offer better opportunities for schooling and more exposure, officials informed.
Therefore, imparting abilities training to help them prepare for the selection process in a short and concentrated capsule is expected to improve greatly the chances of the students of Chhattisgarh securing employment with some of the best employers in the IT/BPM space.
The training must will also be complemented with efforts to establish the credibility of Chhattisgarh in providing quality talent as well as to ensure that reputed organizations come to Chhattisgarh for recruitment. This may start the trend where students, corporates and government of Chhattisgarh are mutually benefitted, officials informed.
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Quelle/Source: The Pioneer, 18.06.2017
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