George Telegraph focuses on increasing employability
GTTI focuses on all aspects to get the students well-placed.
The George Telegraph Training Institute (GTTI), the technical-vocational education institute with 42 centres, is looking at several industry-academia partnerships in order to make its students more employable. GTTI is also planning to set up three more vocational centres in one month, at an average cost of Rs 1 crore per centre. Online eduation is also a space which the institute is exploring.
“We will have at least three new training centres coming up in West Bengal in the next one month. We are looking at more tie-ups with corporates, so that we can make our students more employable,”says GTTI’s chairman, Subrata Dutta.
The Rs 100 crore education group also intends to begin interactive online education for students of higher learning at a minimal cost of Rs 200 per student.
“We have tied-up with BAAK Technology, a leading provider of education technology solutions, and have set up George-Baak Education Technologies. We will soon start offering online interactive learning modules,” said Dutta.
“We are also increasing infrastructure to accommodate more students. We have around 20,000 students at any given time. For new centres and expansion at our existing centres, we usually collaborate with industry partners who take care of funds. We also carry out government-funded education projects or corporate training programmes, which are sponsored programmes,” Dutta said.
GTTI has joined hands with Mukesh Hyundai, the largest dealer for Hyundai cars in East India, to provide its students the best possible on-job training in the automobile industry and make them more employable.
Mukesh Hyundai and GTTI have set up the George Telegraph Institute of Automobile Engineering, at Mukesh Hyundai’s factory in West Bengal. This automobile institute is spread over 10,000 sq ft and can accommodate 400 students per semester. The institute would run two semesters per year.
“This is a two-year diploma programme and it works out to Rs 58,000 per semester. We intend to absorb the students at our factory. The advantage is that we will not have to make any investment in training them,” said Nitin Himatsingka, director, Mukesh Hyundai.
“We have always faced the problem of getting trained manpower who can start work from the day they would join. So we used our own infrastructure and set up this institute in collaboration with George Telegraph, because this has the largest chain of technical institutes in Eastern India,” Himatsingka added.
“There are around 20 dealer showrooms in Kolkata alone, employing around 5,000 people. At the factories, the demand is even more,” pointed out Himatsingka.
The two main courses at the George Telegraph Institute of Automobile Engineering are ‘Advanced Automobile Technology’ and ‘Automobile Sales and Marketing Management’ of 24-months and six-months duration respectively. On the completion of the courses, Mukesh Hyundai has planned a recruitment process for the students.