Kumari Palany & Co

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY WILL NEED 25 MILLION MORE PEOPLE BY 2016”

Posted on: 05/Jun/2010 8:32:48 AM

There is ,of course, always  place for quality Engineers

While there were 15 million employees in the automotive industry in India as on date, 25 million more jobs would be available in the industry during the 10-year period from 2006 to 2016 under the Automotive Mission Plan of the Ministry of Industry, Government of India, but adequate quality automotive engineers were not available to fill the technical posts, according to K.C. Vora, Deputy Director of the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), Pune and Head-ARAI Academy.

Talking to reporters at the VIT campus here on Wednesday, Dr. Vora said that for the first time, ARAI would be collaborating with VIT University for its 4-year B.Tech. Programme in Mechanical Engineering (with specialisation in Automotive Engineering) from the academic year 2010-11. While the students would study in VIT in the first three years to learn the basics of automotive engineering, they would be undergoing the course at ARAI, Pune during the fourth year, for learning the latest technologies and getting hands-on practical experience. The VIT is already offering M.Tech. in Automotive Engineering in association with ARAI for the last six years. All the products of M.Tech. from VIT have been placed well in the automotive industry, he said.

Dr. Vora said that ARAI was planning to start its own Master of Science course in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Materials in association with the Alabama University, U.S. from next year, for which a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Alabama University in April this year. The course would be started after obtaining the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education. The ARAI also offered a 3-year diploma course for its own employees to enable them to upgrade their skills and knowledge, he said.

The ARAI is promoting A World In Motion (AWIM) programme in schools, where children are taught to make small cars, which would operate with the help of balloons. The children are taught the basics of the Law of Motion. This programme was being implemented in order to orient children towards engineering, he said.