Hyderabad: With provide orders from the Indian Area Analysis Organisation (Isro), Defence Analysis and Growth Organisation (DRDO) and Dassault Systemes, Centurion College of Know-how and Administration (CUTM) has carved out a distinct segment for itself within the higher-education house the place equal emphasis is given to job coaching and idea.
The Nationwide Training Coverage, 2020 demanded a shift from theory-oriented to skill-oriented programs. This shift was pioneered by the Centurion College approach again in 2005.
Centurion College, which turned a state-enacted college with NAAC ‘A’ grade in 2010, has seen fast development. In 2017, it was declared Odisha’s first Abilities College and only a 12 months later in 2018 the ministry of talent growth and entrepreneurship (MSDE) declared it India’s first ‘centre of excellence’.
A tour of the college’s Bhubaneswar campus offers a glimpse of what’s working effectively for this college.
The campus is broadly divided into two classes – the schooling blocks, the place idea is the world of focus, and the industrial-training workshops, the place college students make merchandise primarily based on the orders that the college receives.
Within the Bhubaneswar campus, college students have been seen making the core of transformers. These transformers have been being made for a provide order for the Tata Group.
Within the campus’ welding laboratories, samples of high-precision instruments and parts that Isro had sourced from the college have been stored on show.
Within the workshops, college students are seen utilizing costly gear which may price over Rs.1 crore.
“We do not purchase a single piece of kit,” mentioned vice-president and co-founder Prof. D.N. Rao, explaining how the college operates its skilling programmes.
“All these expensive gear are offered to us by these industrial giants. Take as an example, Dassault. In the event that they wish to arrange a parts manufacturing unit, then they strategy us (or in some instances we strategy them) with this proposition and we promise them a POC (proof of idea). We set up the gear and practice our college students on learn how to use it. In truth, they produce the products themselves after which Dassault takes a name on whether or not the products are up to speed by way of high quality,” he mentioned.
“What this POC does is it proves that Dassault can manufacture such items in India and that high quality labour required for manufacturing is obtainable in India,” he mentioned.
In the present day, Centurion College has constituent campuses in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
The skilling programmes are accepted by the Nationwide Talent Growth Company. These have durations of three months, six months and will even go on for so long as one 12 months.
College students for these programs are typically from deprived sections in Odisha and AP.
“Language just isn’t an issue. See most Japanese and Germans don’t converse good English however they produce the most effective engineers. Briefly, the scholars don’t have any hassle choosing up expertise due to English. English is extra service-oriented and we’re speaking about expertise right here,” mentioned Prof. Rao.
Centurion College’s common UG, PG and PhD programmes, (like bachelors, masters levels and so forth) are within the disciplines of engineering, paramedics, administration, agriculture, regulation, forensics, bio-engineering, amongst others.
A scholar showing for the common programs should mandatorily take some skilling programmes.
For instance: a B.Tech scholar should choose not less than one new skilling course each semester. So, not solely will a scholar go together with his/her engineering diploma, he/she can even get eight certificates in topics of his/her selection like welding, making transformers, and many others.
The seeds of this college date again to 2005 when founders Prof. Mukti Kanth Misra and Prof. D.N. Rao took over reins of the failing Jagannath Institute of Know-how and Administration in Paralakhemundi village of Gajapati district, Odisha. It was the locals’ plea for making their sons job-ready that gave Centurion College its schooling mannequin.
The college got here up throughout a very essential interval within the nationwide context. Within the early 2000s, India desperately needed to develop into a producing hub however the manpower obtainable was not educated.
The Worldwide Labour Group, in a 2003 research, mentioned the graduates of Industrial Coaching Institutes and Industrial Coaching Centres in India have been discovered performing under expectation. Related experiences had emerged from the Authorities of India and the World Financial institution.
That very want turned the college’s byword; accordingly its official web site claims “studying that’s fingers on, expertise primarily based and observe oriented”.
Two elements are integral to the college’s operations – sustainability and a way of giving again to the group.
“Not a single drop of sewage waste from the college makes its approach to the federal government’s drainage system. It’s all handled in our in-house waste-to-water crops,” mentioned Prof. Misra, stepping into element on the tradition of sustainability within the college.
The college additionally takes up coaching programmes, in partnership with companies akin to Cafe Espresso Day, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Eicher, Selco Basis, amongst many others, for self-help teams and Anganwadi employees.
This was lauded by the United Nations Basic Meeting in its 67th session. “In India, the Centurion College of Know-how and Administration (Orissa) — the one State-enacted College within the non-public sector with its robust industrial linkage by way of its Social Entrepreneurship Outreach (Gram Tarang) and its deal with group — has excelled in offering expertise to college students from rural areas,” the UN had famous.
With such a stellar fame, governments from India and overseas (Gabon, Morocco, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab) have requested the college authorities to arrange a constituent campus of their respective states/international locations.
Nevertheless, Vice Chancellor Prof. Supriya Pattanayak defined the college is seeking to play it protected in the meanwhile.
“It’s completely an enormous factor to start out a brand new campus. Nevertheless first, we should be mindful the attrition price of high quality college. Then clearly there’s a big financial funding. When you simply see our electrical energy invoice, you’ll perceive,” Prof. Supriya Pattanayak chuckled, referring to the excessive energy consumption of heavy equipment on the workshops.
In distinction to what one might imagine, information signifies that there are extra women in sure programs like nursing, allied sciences, forensics, paramedics, MCA, MSc, BSc and PhD.
