Industry require considerable number of skilled workforce. So we need dedicated training systems for that. Industry veterans also suggested same thing in a meet with Niti Ayog. That straight points to involvement of educational institutes in industry related projects.
The Indian Institute of Technology in Bhubaneswar has received approval to run a project under the Chips to Startups program. Addressing a press conference in Bhubaneshwar MInister Shri Aswini Vaishnav said that IIT Bhubaneswar had joined the government’s Chips to Startups program. The Chips to Startup program of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) aims to train 85,000 high-quality engineers in Very large-scale integration (VLSI) and Embedded System Design technologies.
Apart from the project at IIT Bhubaneswar, the IIT Hyderabad also plans to start an undergraduate course in VLSI design and technology, which also aims to create a pool of highly qualified semiconductor engineers and technical experts.
Both the courses are a part of the IT ministry’s plan to train 85,000 engineers for various roles in the semiconductor industry, apart from nearly 250,000 shop-floor technicians and junior engineers. For the training of shop-floor technicians, the government has tied up with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute and The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
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