The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Osmania University to set up BPO centre

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, Dec 06, 2007
ePaper

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Osmania University to set up BPO centre

The centre will be established with the help of Nipuna, a sister concern of Satyam group

To equip students with skills for ITES sector jobs
BPO centre will have an attached finishing school

HYDERABAD: Osmania University is setting up a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centre and an attached finishing school with the help of Nipuna, a sister-concern of Satyam group in order to equip students with the skills necessary for employment in the ITES sector.

It will be set up at Osmania University Centre for International Programme (OUCIP) and will start functioning from the coming academic year.

Osmania University Vice-Chancellor Suleman Siddiqi told reporters here on Wednesday that two batches of 40 seats each would be offered initially and Nipuna was assisting in framing the course material.

Students would get a diploma for the BPO course while the stint at Finishing School would be treated as a certificate course.

These courses could be done simultaneously along with the PG course.

He said the fee for this self-financing course was yet to be decided but it would be affordable.

New initiatives

Explaining the innovative academic initiatives taken up, Prof. Siddiqi said the university had introduced inter-disciplinary courses in sciences stream last year and now it would be extended to English, Linguistics and Communication & Journalism courses from this year. Students could study 20 credits of any one of the stream while studying 80 credits of their parent department. “Osmania is the first university in the State to have introduced this innovative concept,” he said.

The university also tied up with the Sri Padmavathi Mahila Vishwa Vidyalayam in Tirupati to offer B.Ed course in the distance mode and it had been approved by the Distance Education Council (DEC) and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). Initially 500 seats would be on the offer. Similarly, university planned to introduce M.Ed in distance mode from this year and necessary approvals had been obtained.

Prof. Siddiqi said Genpact that had a tie-up with the university for B.Com (Computers) course was now evincing keen interest for a similar tie-up for M.Com course also. It was also keen on extending its association for MCA and BCA courses also.

Regarding the controversy over the Central Facilities Building, the Vice-Chancellor explained that the costs had gone up from Rs. 4.50 crore to Rs. 6.12 crore due to change in the location. The new location was rocky and a retaining wall had to be constructed around the building apart from increasing the height of basement. The EC had also approved the enhancement.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Andhra Pradesh