JNTU RESULTS |
- JNTU-HYDERABAD : B.Tech (CCC) II Year Contact Programme Post-Poned.
- Telecom Policy: Roaming charges to go, broadband speed up.
- IT recruiters swarm campuses.
- Parents, activists clash over college reopening.
- RTC staff ends strike.
| JNTU-HYDERABAD : B.Tech (CCC) II Year Contact Programme Post-Poned. Posted: 11 Oct 2011 01:03 AM PDT JNTU-HYDERABAD : B.Tech (CCC) II Year Contact Programme Post-Poned. JNTU-HYDERABAD : B.Tech (CCC) II Year Contact Programme Post-Poned. Wait till the below image loads completely… |
| Telecom Policy: Roaming charges to go, broadband speed up. Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:44 AM PDT Telecom Policy: Roaming charges to go, broadband speed up. NEW DELHI : Communications minister Kapil Sibal on Monday unveiled the draft National Telecoms Policy 2011, containing new rules for the sector. The revised rules, which will replace the existing framework that has been in place since 1999, aims to have broadband on demand for all citizens. The new policy states that revenue generation will play a secondary role and the main objective was to increase rurual teledensity to 100% by 2020. Sibal said that special focus will be on rural and remote areas and the new policy would have a framework to make more spectrum available. Sibal had already announced that new policy will de-link licences from spectrum and had added that the tenure of mobile permits would be halved to 10 years when they come up for renewal. Kapil Sibal said that the policy aims to make 300 MHz of spectrum available by 2017 and and another 200 MHz by 2020. The draft plan also proposes to do away with roaming charges, introduce a stronger customer grievance redressal mechanism, recognize telecoms as an infrastructure sector giving it tax concessions, and extend preferential status to ‘Made in India’ hardware products. Roaming charges account for 8% of cellular operators revenue. According to KPMG, doing away with roaming charges will effect the telecom companies negatively. The policy will focus on convergence of TV, internet and internet services. Broadband download speed will be revised to 512 kbps vs 216 kbps. Sibal said that the government will audit the use of spectrum. He also added that the policy aims to make India a hub for telecom equipment manufacturing and will have provisions to create a corpus for R&D, IPR and entrepreneurship. The telecom minister said that India’s teledensity currently was at 74% and there are 866 million mobile phones in India. Rural teledensity was at 35.6%. Source : TOIC ||| FirstRanker.com ||| - JNTU Hyderabad - JNTU Kakinada - JNTU Anantapur |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:13 AM PDT
In the ever expanding IT industry, campus recruitments are no longer about careful selection of engineers but about roping them in bulk. As the magnitude for qualified human resource in IT and ITES continues to increase despite speculation of a recession just around the corner, the IT majors are on a binge recruitment drive. At SRM University, TCS recruited 1,214 students, Accenture signed up 849 and Wipro another 273. At every other private university in Tamil Nadu like Amrita, VIT or Sastra, the top notch IT companies are recruiting en masse. The pattern is similar in top government-aided and self-financing colleges where hundreds of students are offered IT jobs. This year, Cognizant alone has hired 7,122 anew till now. Hiring thousands of students from a campus across various domains has become a norm. Be it a student of Chemical engineering, Biotechnology or Mechanical, the final destination seems to be an IT company. For Chemical engineering student M.S. Maheswari, it was easy to shift streams to take up a job at an IT firm. "Being a student of computer science or chemical engineering does not make any difference, since all the recruits are trained from the basics. I joined this industry to gain work experience before I go for higher studies," she says. More than 80 per cent of students who are offered the jobs accept them, say placement officers. Most students when they choose the various engineering streams are not aware of what they are in for. It is often during the final-year they understand about the opportunities and future prospects in that field and end up taking jobs in the IT industry, placement officers say. Awareness about the course needs to be created even before students join engineering, though it cannot be denied that IT is the largest job provider. Of late, the industry is ensuring that what is offered comes closer to what students study for four years at college. "The IT sector which hires students from all streams has also started offering students a profile where they can apply the domain knowledge they have. Companies are working with the machine designing industry where mechanical engineering students are hired and with the health science sector where biotechnology graduates can be employed," says S. Ganapathy, Dean, SRM Placements. Some universities try and balance between bulk recruiters and also allow students to exercise their options across companies. The IT industry is feeling the need to recruit more as many students prefer a career in their subjects of specialisation. "Students are increasingly opting for core companies," says Kala Vijaykumar, chairperson, SSN College of Engineering. Companies also decide on the colleges they need to recruit from based on a number of factors. "We identify campuses on our accredited list. These will depend on the quality of faculty, the facilities and infrastructure and the overall track record of the institution. We have about 175 engineering colleges on our accredited list from where we do our regular on-campus recruitment," says V. Viswanathan, Senior Manager, HR, Wipro Technologies. As thousands get chosen from one campus there are some others left behind. Students from Tier I and II colleges wait for that one off-campus recruitment to grab the job on offer. "In the college rankings brought out recently some of the Tier 2 and 3 colleges were among the top 15 institutions. The best in Tier 2 and 3 colleges are often good and sometimes even better than the weakest students from Tier-I colleges," says B. Anbuthambi, General Manager- Corporate and Government initiatives, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu. Companies look out for such students too, since they are more committed and would stay on the job longer. "But often they do not have as many opportunities as students from the city colleges. One of the IT majors plans to hold a national-level entrance test from this year. If all the recruiters take up such an initiative, all the graduates will have an equal platform to prove themselves," says Mr. Anbuthambi. Source : The Hindu ||| FirstRanker.com ||| - JNTU Hyderabad - JNTU Kakinada - JNTU Anantapur |
| Parents, activists clash over college reopening. Posted: 11 Oct 2011 12:07 AM PDT Parents, activists clash over college reopening. HYDERABAD : Amid increasing demand for exclusion of educational institutions in the ongoing Sakala Janula Samme, a group of parents and students staged a protest in front of a private junior college at Kukatpally demanding the management to begin classes keeping in view the future of the students. Mild tension prevailed at the college as some pro-Telangana activists arrived there and picked up an argument with the protestors and said they would not allow the college to function. A group of students and their parents reached NRI junior college in KPHB colony on Monday to demand the management to start classes but they found a board stating that the institution is closed due to the strike. Educational institutions were scheduled to start classes from Monday after Dasara vacation but several of them chose to close in view of the strike. The parents picked up an argument with the management saying the future of their children is at stake with the closure of colleges. As the parents tried to force their way inside, a group of pro-T activists also reached there and an argument ensued between the two groups. The T supporters said they would not allow colleges to function till the Centre makes an announcement in favour of Telangana. "How can you force the colleges to start classes when the entire region is on the boil and more than 600 students have committed suicide for the cause,'' the Telangana activists questioned the parents. The latter, however, contended that their children would not be able to complete the syllabus with the frequent bandhs. As tempers ran high, some persons said to be Telangana activists pelted stones at the college damaging glass panes. Sensing trouble, police intervened and dispersed both the groups. Telangana activists later held negotiations with the college management and the latter assured that they would not start classes till the situation improves. No case has been registered by the police. Source : Indian Express ||| FirstRanker.com ||| - JNTU Hyderabad - JNTU Kakinada - JNTU Anantapur |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2011 11:58 PM PDT RTC buses were back on the roads on Monday evening after a 23-day absence, immediately leading to traffic jams after the corporation's largest recognised union called off its strike upon the government agreeing to most of its demands. In a dramatic turn of events, the APSRTC National Mazdoor Union (NMU) announced its decision to withdraw after a meeting with transport minister Botsa Satyanarayana and road transport officials and securing a slew of concessions including the strike period being treated as leave and employees being paid for their period of absence. The union stated that it had called off the strike keeping in view the financial difficulty staring at the corporation. The RTC NMU general secretary, Mr Syed Mahmood, said the transport corporation had accumulated losses of nearly Rs 150 crore. Mixed reaction to RTC strike call off On the roads, it was a different scene. With motor-ists getting used to free roads, the sudden appearance of buses caused consternation and a bit of confusion as RTC drivers crossed lanes and caused traffic jams. However, the RTC NMU Telangana Forum rejected the withdrawal of the strike. T-NMU unit state secretary K. Hanumanthu said that the strike notice was given by the T-Forum employees and only they can call off the strike. He said that the forum members would continue the strike. In response, NMU's Mr Mahmood stated that the Telangana Forum had been abolished and requested the RTC employees to come back to work. The T-agitators reacted aggressively to the main union's move. Source : DC ||| FirstRanker.com ||| - JNTU Hyderabad - JNTU Kakinada - JNTU Anantapur |
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