COIMBATORE: Anna University is confident that 10,000 engineering students would find employment under the Tamil Nadu State-level Placement Programme this year, Vice-Chancellor D. Viswanathan said here on Thursday.

He told presspersons at the Government College of Technology that the recruitments were likely to increase dramatically this year (compared to 1,100 last year) because of the rise in demand for qualified personnel in the software sector and steps taken by Anna University to improve the `employability' level of its students.

878 registered for recruitment

Prof. Viswanathan said 878 students from 66 colleges had registered for the first campus recruitment this year under the State-level scheme.

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) was the first to interview students at the Coimbatore centre.

Students who had performed well consistently and scored 77 per cent and above in their semester examinations had been called for the interview from all branches of engineering. The placement scheme was for students studying in non-autonomous self-financing engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University and covered 222 institutions in the State.

Separate channel

To overcome the restrictions caused by shortage of qualified faculty, Anna University would deliver lecture notes in digital form to its students, through compact discs. It would take one-and-a-half years to put together the content. A separate channel would be in place within two years, to deliver the content directly to the students. In addition to the curriculum, the students could take value-added courses.

"We have also asked affiliated colleges to establish communication labs where students can practise English communication. Colleges have said that the students do not find time to get trained, but we have asked them to set apart some time for practice during the evenings," he said.

Inaugurating the placement scheme for the year, Prof. Viswanathan said that the Indian software industry required two lakh qualified personnel and hoped all the 75,000 graduates from Anna University would be employed.

He told the students to concentrate on completing their course without turning over-confident after being selected through campus interview.

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