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| 700 hours of Internship now mandatory for B.Tech and Diploma Students from this year |
From the current session an engineering student will have to compulsorily undertake 600 to 700
hours of internship during their four-year B Tech programme while the students enrolled in
diploma level engineering programmes will have to complete 450-500 hours of internship, the
AICTE has proposed.
According to a dra
internship policy and guidelines formulated by the All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE), students will have option to either go for a full-time internship or
part time.
Students internship programmes will start from their second semester.
“A minimum of 14-20 credits of internship/entrepreneurial activities/project work/seminar and
inter/intra institutional training may be counted toward B Tech degree programme and 10-16
credits for three year diploma programme,” the council proposed in its dra
guidelines.
With the council proposing to make one credit equivalent to minimum 40-45 hours of work, a
full time intern is expected to spend 40-45 hours per week on internship, training, project work,
seminar and other activities.
“This will result in 600 to 700 hours of total internship duration for the B Tech and 450-500 hours
of diploma,” the council said. A student can undertake full-time internship in the summer vacation.
Those keen on going for part time internship can undertake it anytime during their academic
session.
As per draft guidelines, students, after
summer vacation, are required to be involved in
inter/intra institutional activities such as training with the higher education institutions or so
skill training organised by the training and placement cell of the respective institutions.
After
fourth or sixth semester, students can choose to undergo innovation/entrepreneurial
activities under the internship programme.
“Students may choose either to work on innovation or entrepreneurial activities resulting in
start-up or undergo internship with industry/NGOs/government organisations to make
themselves ready for the industry,” the dra
guidelines stipulates.
Students can take up project work and seminar as per their curriculum during their eighth (last)
semester, it added.
