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Delhi varsity ties up with ICICI Bank

Parul Sharma

NEW DELHI: To help its undergraduate students gain “immediate employability”, Delhi University has tied up with ICICI Bank to launch certificate, diploma and post-graduate diploma courses in banking and financial services.

e-learning centres

The bank will be setting up e-learning centres for creating a pool of highly-skilled students at these nine colleges: Acharya Narendra Dev College; Bharati College; Bhim Rao Ambedkar College; College of Vocational Studies; Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (evening); Syama Prasad Mukherjee College; School of Open Learning; Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce; and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

“As per the memorandum of understanding signed between the University and ICICI Bank in May this year, both the partners will offer modular courses in banking and financial services. Once the students complete this course, they will be a ready source of entry-level employees for the bank. Our output will become their input,” said K. N. Tripathi, Dean of Research at the University, who is overseeing the project.

A three-week faculty familiarisation programme was held in June to prepare the University’s teachers to further train the students who will undergo the courses.

“The programme was conducted by ICICI Bank and 19 faculty members from different colleges participated in it. Several executives from the bank held interactive sessions with the teachers on the basics of banking. Topics like e-banking, real credit, rural banking and rural finance were discussed. Industry visits were also facilitated to give the teachers a feel of the whole set-up,” said Prof. Madhu Vij at the Faculty of Management Studies who has been associated with the project since its inception.

“ICICI Bank has agreed to make available the course content. This academia-industry interface is meant for bridging the gap between the two. The idea is to align the curriculum in tune with the requirements of the industry. We have tried to ensure that in the first three years ICICI Bank will absorb all the students, but of course there will be an arrangement for screening the students at the entry level,” added Prof. Vij.

While the e-learning centre in all the nine colleges is expected to become operational by October-November this year, the one at the School of Open Learning will be ready by the first week of next month.

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