AICTE to launch job portal

Placement companies like Monster.com and Naukri.com will soon have a rival as the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is developing a job portal for the students of technical and professional institutions approved by it. The job portal will have a database of all the students of technical and professional institutions with their academic and other details, besides a large number of private sector employers.

While the students would be able to access the portal free of cost and post their curriculum vitae, companies registered with the portal, too, will have facility to log on to the portal and search for their prospective employees.

“The job portal is being developed to benefit the students pursuing technical and professional education in the country. We have already captured students’ semester wise results,” AICTE chairman S S Mantha said. A database of about 8000 companies from different sectors has also been created. This will be uploaded in the portal being developed, he added.

The job portals being run by various companies usually charge some fee against their services, but the portal being developed by the Council will be absolutely free of cost for the students of AICTE approved institutions.

“AICTE provides a mail ID to each of the students of the institutions approved by it.

Using their IDs, the students can log on to the portal and post their CVs (Curriculum Vitae) and search a suitable job. Similarly employers can also log on to the portal and look for prospective employees,” Mantha said.

While the portal could be accessed by the students free of cost, the AICTE has not yet taken any decision on whether it will be used by the employers, too, free of cost.

The Council has also collected e-mail IDs of human resource department of a large number of companies. “We will collect more ID’s of companies’ HRs and upload them in the portal. This will create a direct interface between employees and employers. This is not there in the job portals being run by various private companies,” an AICTE official said.

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Aakash tablets coming to a college library near you

Don’t want to spend INR 2,500 to buy Akash tablet, well you might still be able to get your hands on it. According to a report, Government is planning to place Aakash tablets in School/College libraries, so that students can get them issued like normal books and then return after using.

These library editions of Aakash will have college specific curriculum pre-loaded on the tablet. According to Zee News, government wants Aakash to reach all 220 million school and college students. Hence this step ofrenting the tab will in a way help government to reach its target.


However, government has still not started selling Aakash to students and even the commercial availability of Ubislate is also in question. Government has told NYTimes that it has now decided to procure the upgraded version of the tablet thus this delay. This upgraded version will come with 3200 mAh battery instead of 2100 mAh, better firmware and a 700 MHz Cortex A8 processor instead of the 366 MHz ARM 11 processor initially supplied. These supplies for the upgraded Aakash are yet to be received.

On the other hand, Datawind is trying hard to cope with increased demand of the tablet and released the following statement on itsFacebook page.


Delivery Schedule for Aakash – Deliveries of Aakash are currently in progress. If you ordered online and still have not heard from us, please bear with us for a little more time. By end of January we intend to contact everyone who ordered an Aakash. We are contacting you via email/phone in the order that your bookings were received by us. Once we contact you, you’ll be given the option to make your payment and Aakash will be shipped to you via a courier service. Aakash will continue to be shipped till stocks last.

For those of you looking to buy Aakash, it can try and place the order atNcarry.com, however there are very limited stocks and they might have been already finished. The upgraded version is expected to be available in late-January and that too has been pre-booked till February, so any new orders will only be fulfilled in March.

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