Engineering Students to Have 3 Mandatory Internships: Javadekar

The responsibility will be on the institute to help students find a suitable industry for the internship, he said.

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar. (Photo: Reuters)

HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said that engineering students in the country will now have to undergo at least three internships, Hindustan Times reported.

It further reported that the onus of providing the internships to the students will fall on the college. “Every student in technical institute should undergo three internships each spanning four to eight weeks before completion of his/her under-graduation course. The responsibility will be on the institute to help students find a suitable industry for the internship,” Javadekar was quoted as telling the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Javadekar’s statements come in the context of AICTE data from 2015-2016 which asserted that in 10,328 technical institutes, only 6.96 lakh students got campus placements out of a whopping 15.87 lakh students.

Javadekar also added that teachers will have to undergo a refresher course every year. Not complying with this could lead to the approval of the institute getting denied, the report added. The teachers will have to take up online courses offered on government’s SWAYAM portal, he added.