Patna : With a view to providing necessary information to scholars about job avenues in different sectors and securing suitable placements for the pass-outs of self-financing and vocational skill development courses, Patna University (PU) has set up a full-fledged ‘counselling, training and placement cell’ on its campus.
The 14-member cell headed by PU applied economics and commerce department senior teacher A L Chakraborty will have a separate office having necessary infrastructural facilities and staff. The cell will prepare a manual of rules for its functioning and the same would be placed before the university’s statutory bodies for their approval.
As per PU notification, the registration fee of a student for this cell would be Rs500. A centralized calendar shall be prepared and published by the cell. To start with, this cell will deal with only postgraduate students.
Other members of the cell are students’ welfare dean N K Jha (member secretary), personnel management and industrial relations department head Sunita Roy, law department head Salim Jawed, directorate of distance education (DDE) chief Deepti Kumari, botany department teacher Birendra Prasad, economics department teacher Manoj Prabhakar, statistics department teacher Manoj Kumar Rastogi, Vanijya Mahavidyalaya English teacher Naqui Ahmad John, philosophy department teacher Vijeta Singh, Magadh Mahila College botany teacher Surendra Kumar Prasad, geology department teacher Bhavuk Sharma, Institute of Psychological Research and Services teacher Priyanka Kumari and PU Computer Centre in charge K P Singh.
It may be mentioned that even though PU has been running dozens of job-oriented courses under self-financing mode for the last several years, the placement scenario has been quite bleak so far. About a decade back, PU had set up a placement cell headed by then DDE chief Amarendra Mishra for the pass-outs of these courses. Initially, it had managed to invite some reputed organizations and secure jobs for the university scholars. But, soon, it became dysfunctional due to reasons best known to the authorities concerned.
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