 activities when it comes to interfacing with the industry. Right now, I want to share with you some of the activities we have been doing, and maybe we may not be doing everything as part of NPTEL, but we did make a good attempt to help NPTEL learn us in a big way. Geetha, can you please share the presentation in the screen so that I will share the slides. So one of the things that we do as part of NPTEL is NPTEL has something called NPTEL Industry Associate Program, where we work with industry partners closely on various initiatives. So and we do very interesting activities as part of industry interface. Geetha, it's better you put it in full screen, Geetha, if you don't mind. Yeah, thank you. So you can go to the previous slide, I'll explain. So on a broader context, NPTEL partners with various companies, I think we have now Sandfair Plus partners where we do various activities with each of the partners, some of them give us CSR support, some of them give us job requirements, some of them give us live sessions, but where we actually interact with each of these partners, that's the goal. So we work with Sandfair Plus industry partners, including IBM Infosys, many companies are there, but basically trying to actually take best of what is there in the academic community from their perspective, they want good talent and they want to help academic community. And for us, companies are there to help us to give industry perspective. Sometimes they give live sessions, sometimes they also come and recruit our students. So we do various activities, but today we want to focus upon recruitment context. And many of you who are doing NPTEL courses, you're very much keen to know how does NPTEL help in recruitment. But before I get into the detailed slides and detailed presentation, I want to put a caveat, where I want to say that NPTEL doesn't guarantee jobs too, it's learners because we are a government project and we cannot do that as part of the project by legal norms. At the same time, we are also keen to help our students in giving them right opportunities, showcasing them what are the skills that they need to build so that they can actually go back and learn. So our idea is to create more awareness to the students and we want to see that our students get good jobs, they do well in career. So we are very keen that we should help all our NPTEL learners, that's a goal. But at the same time, we come with constraints because we are a project in IIT Madras and we are a project funded measurement of India. So we don't officially promise anything, they're not a college to promise an admission or for example, a job in a company. So coming back to this session, the session primarily talks about internships and placement support that NPTEL is giving. I was telling you we work with Central Plus partners and because we have partners, they have requirements, they come regularly and tell us, these are the kind of students we want. And the reason we want to do this session, at least some of you participated, I'm very happy that you are interested in knowing more about what NPTEL is doing as part of recruitment and internships. And why we feel this session is relevant is many times when we have a requirement, we may not have suitable students, although we may have in our database, but they may not be applying for our role. We want to keep all of you informed, we are doing something interesting so that all of you come back and eventually tell your students that there's some option like this and you can apply. Yeah, Geetha, next slide, Geetha. So Geetha is part of my team, she's my colleague who's helping me in the NPTEL industrial relations. I'm sure you must have seen her in some of the sessions earlier. So we kind of divide internship support or recruitment support into three steps. What is the process that we follow when it comes to either internships or recruitment? We want to explain today and just to give you some numbers during the last one year, I want to share that. Then finally the feedback from the students. So we did some interesting work that has actually encouraging us to come in front of you to share what we have done till now. Yeah, Geetha, next slide. So in when it comes to recruitment, we have something called resume form submission based on your eligibility. When I say eligibility, it's not your eligibility, but students' eligibility, if they've taken a NPTEL exam, they've got a good score based on their eligibility, we'll be sending them a resume form. Many times they have to do well and they have to pass. And we also check the year of graduation when they're completing the non-campus program. Let us say they're in a college and they have to complete the college degree. Then only we share with them the resume form. And followed by that, we give an employability assessment, they need to complete these two. Then as in when we get requirements for companies, we actually select topper candidates and shortlist them and we share the required job application form to those shortlisted candidates. So this goes parallel activity, very simple. Like sometimes you get job requirement first, sometimes you may shortly store it based on their performance in certain courses and we give it to companies. So some of them directly get calls and they get jobs as well. And we ensure that whenever they fill the resume form, all the details required from a resume context or from an employer context is covered. And that's the information we use to share with the resume. And we also get explicit permission from the student to share this information with the recruiter. And recruiter will proceed with the next step whether it's an online test or an interview. So these are the first steps I want to share with you. Go on Neeta to the next slide. Yeah, so just to give you a summary about what we have done in the last few years, last two years, Capgemini we got 62 NPTEL toppers who got placed especially in various positions in Capgemini, which is very good because what Capgemini has done is they said anybody who's going through NPTEL and who's actually applying for jobs through Capgemini, through NPTEL, they don't have to write a written test which is very good advantage for NPTEL toppers and NPTEL learners, very important. And we get some special requirements saying they want only girls students from rural areas. So all these opportunities are coming. We are regularly sharing with the Sparks and the students but sometimes the response is good. Sometimes it can be better. That's what I would say. Sometimes we don't get enough number that we want to showcase to the companies because companies have a lot of requirement. And Infosys we were able to get 57 job offers for a role of software engineer and 5 lakh per annum. Antigis Networks, again you can see a very good number of people who got jobs. Then M3 is a company where they do internships followed by a three month internship followed by a job, four candidates got. And why we are focusing jobs which are high profile in terms of salaries. Regular jobs I'm sure many of the colleges themselves have in campus. So we're not going to focus on the regular jobs which typically a fresh student get. So we are trying to do something more than what they get regularly. So the regular typical jobs we don't go after because they're anyway available to students. Why should we do separately? Linty difference, we have some students who got jobs. Then similarly we have a platform called Geek Trust where we are partnered with. They do interesting thing where they get opportunities from companies. And if you do programming well on the platform eventually you get jobs. So we got students who got salary around 5 lakhs. Some of them got even 14 lakhs. So they have very good set of companies on their platform and some of our students have done very well. Similarly some more companies are in pipeline in terms of results. So this is the summary. We want to tell you whenever there is opportunity we are going to reach out to you. And we want to tell you also get certification, sorry NPTEL certification can definitely help you in especially in getting jobs not directly through us always but through us also we want to prove that some of the students do well and we got consistent data that our students are doing. So that's an important information I want to share with you. Gita, can you go to the next slide? Yeah, this is the sum of the feedback that we have received from the learners. What course they have done with us and how did they get the interview opportunity and how they got raised in various companies say that it is Capgemini or Infosys. They clearly see that they have learned fundamentals especially when they do NPTEL courses and which we want to highlight to your students that students also look at some of this courses for learning. And the main thing that NPTEL provides is fundamentals for sure, along with the fundamentals they also get good jobs. So some of them are asking what kind of courses they've done. So major of them are courses in IT that Python programming or Java or some of the courses in IT are good especially when they go for jobs. Like I told you, one, they build good skill set and they do well in the course. Second, they also gain confidence to attend interview because most of the, for example, PDSA Python by Professor Madhavan Mukund is a very popular course. Many of them do that course because they do exactly what companies want that particular course covers that syllabus. So they do very well when they do such courses and they attend interview. They have that confidence to face the interview very confidently. So that is where these courses are very relevant. It's not that whatever you learn you're going to get in the interview or an exam that you can crack it just like that, not that way. It's you build the skill set, you also build the comfort, you also get the confidence to face the interview and you do well. So there's a lot more you have to do along with the NPTEL course but NPTEL is a very good stepping stone. That's what we have received consistently from our students as a feedback that these courses are definitely helping them in building that skill set. The next slide, Geetha. Yeah, so we also have something called internship support for NPTEL toppers where we help our toppers to do internships and various IITs. This I would request Geetha to do a brief presentation to all of you but the idea is to help our internship opportunities that we have in various IITs with various professors for NPTEL toppers and we also give stipend of rupees 2,000 fine debt just two weeks or similarly if it is for longer duration we give a higher stipend. But the idea is to help our NPTEL learners with various opportunities that we have with the professor and they get to work with the professor to part the course. And the course offers to toppers in that course are given profile. Go over to you, Geetha. Please go. Yeah, thank you, sir. Good evening all. I'm Geetha. I handle internship for NPTEL learners. So actually from 2018 onwards, NPTEL has started offering internship to the course toppers actually. We want to give our NPTEL learners to give rich research experience from the professors. So now in the session, I'm going to explore what is the process to what is the procedure we are following to in the internship and what is the eligibility criteria to take up this internship. So the eligibility criteria here is the students must be a course stopper in one of the NPTEL course. Then only he or she will be eligible for the internship. And next, what will be the procedure we are following? Actually, the internship is it is purely based on the availability and willingness of the professor. So first we approach the professors and we get their availability and willingness to take internship. So once the professor agreed to take the interns, then we will approach them. They will write to the toppers. So we will write to the toppers and we will share the application with the toppers. So through this application, we will get their resume and a one page summary of their research interest. Then that will be shared with the professors. Now the professor will shortlist the intern. So after getting the shortlisted candidates from the professors, again we will go for the registration process because to get the confirmation letter, the students has to fill the registration form. Okay, this is the overall process we are following in the internship. And then post internship and there are based on the duration, we will provide the stipend to the candidates post internship. So two weeks internship, they will get 2,500 and four weeks internship, they will receive 5,000 stipend as you can see in the screen. So post internship based on the feedback from the professor, we will provide the stipend and we will provide the certificate to the candidates. So here I want to show some statistics here. So far, two 49 students have successfully completed their internship. Now the summer internship is going on soon. We will start the winter internship. So next I want to show some feedbacks from the intern candidates who successfully completed the internship. So here they explained how they are getting the research experience from the various IIT professors and how the internship helps them to expand their knowledge and experience. So here the important point here is if your students want to get this internship opportunity, then they should be a course stopper in any one of the NPTEL course. This is the eligibility criteria to get the internship. Yeah, with this I completed my presentation. So if you have any queries, please ask. Yes, Fox can unmute and ask your query so you can put it in the chat window. Hello. Yeah, good morning, ma'am. Hello. Yes, sir. Hello, good evening, ma'am. Yes, sir, good evening, sir. Actually the internship has brought the concern they are required the industry internship. Most of the times the ICT and the other people are saying it is mandatory to each and every students to go for industry internship. Then if NPTEL is taking provided the facility for the doppers, it's well and good. We got an opportunity for under a particular professor. But if other students also secure very good marks, are they get the facility for doing the internship? Right now, Mr. Satya, right now, if the companies are giving us an internship requirement, we are very happy to share. But right now they are not giving us any requirement right now for NPTEL students as such for industry internship. Like I shared with you, there's a company called M3 which gave us internship come job, three month internship followed by a job. Such requirements we'll definitely share with you. But the problem is most of the companies are waiting for students to complete their degrees which means they would have graduated, right? There's no scope for internship. So that's where we currently struggle. And second, if you see the whole internship cycle also for companies, unlike jobs, the number of internship opportunities are limited when you compare number of job opportunities in typical companies. Many companies have only job opportunities. Some of them don't have an internship role at all. So that being the case, they may have a three month trainee come intern role. After that, they want jobs. What you are expecting is a summer internship where they go three months work and come back. Yeah, summer internship, basically summer internship. So that is not a common thing for all companies. So, but from my NPTEL side, if there are any requirements that come, we are happy to share with you. But till now we didn't find too many of them which say I want internship and I want from NPTEL. That's the important thing. Yeah, most of them come for jobs to us and which we share. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Good evening, sir. I wanted to ask you who are classified as toppers, sir. So is it like top only one student or how does that go? So I think, Gita, you want to explain how we do the topper selection. Generally, we go by the percentage that they get, the score that they get in their subjects. Sometimes if you want only 100 people in a course, we'll say 80% and above or 90% and above. And if you have an opportunity to get more people shortlisted for the job, then we don't mind reducing it to 75%. But again, performance in that subject is very critical. If the number of applicants, they want to take smaller number, they reduce the score or increase the score so that they reduce the number of applications to filter, but it's mostly to do with their performance. We don't generally fix that score saying this is topper, this is not a topper. Though, NPTEL gives you some kind of score based on their performance. Gita, you want to add something? Typically how you shortlist when you... Yeah, yes, sir. Sir, now usually we are taking the candidates, those who got more than 70% more than 70% in the NPTEL exam. And for internships, those who got the topper badge in their certificate, they can eligible for applying the internship. Yes, sir. All right, ma'am, I understand. Ma'am, could you explain, this is a civil department from Prasad Jayanthi College, Dandilore. Could you explain the nature of the internship, what exactly the children will do there? Sir, you're asking about the internship from IIT professors or company internship. Yeah, what they do in the lab, that's what professors do. What exactly they do, yeah. So if I can answer that question, Gita. Typically, profs have projects and they actually do various experiments, right, typical professor in IIT, they do research work. So they are engaged in those activities. Some of them get some training as well as part of the lab activities. So it's typically a work done in a lab, in a research lab in an institute like IIT. It is completely dependent on the professors. We can't define and say, this is what they will do on a generic level, but they do get into the lab level activities that much I am aware of. Thank you so much, sir, thank you. Thank you. Hello. Yes, sir. Sir, is the student has to apply or the professor will choose the particular subject? There's a lot of topics over there. So that is the two criteria here. One, professor should be interested to offer internship. That's the first criteria. Ita, is that correct? Yeah, yes, sir. Actually, as I said already, based on the availability and willingness of the professor, the student will receive the internship opportunities, sir. Actually, we first collect the willingness of the professor. So based on the willingness, we will circulate the application to the particular course. Excuse me, whether the internship will be online or offline? Yeah, some professors, they are asking the students to take up the internship through online. Some professors, they want to bring the candidates to their lab for in-puzzle and internship. So it is also, here everything is based on the professor's willingness and professor's decisions. So compared to number of courses offered and the number of internship is very low, madam. Is it? It is completely dependent on the professor, sir. Unfortunately, this is not that NPTEL controls. Like we don't control how many internships can be given. There's no mandatory requirement. It's more friendly gesture from a faculty. See, if you see today, most IITs have on-campus internship program that they allow for summer internships. They already have the program in place. They can recruit through that method. But because NPTEL has good relationship with the professor, we are saying, your own course stoppers, why don't you give them opportunity to work in your lab? So it's like, we are on the level, NPTEL has no control on how many internships can be given. But however, your point is valid that we can get more internships. But it's like not in our hands, but we are trying our best to give. And we are also getting external support to offer this scholarship because it's not given by government or anybody. This internship's time, SLAIPAN is again funded by NPTEL. We get scholarships and we get other CSR support and alumni support to support this. So it's not something that we can drive it in a large scale, given our constraints. But we will try our best because it has to start somewhere. That's the reason we want to share with you wherever it's available. We'll be happy to give you opportunities. It's a good opportunity for the students, for us, I call a student to work in IIT. It's a great opportunity. That is why I'm asking. Yes, the point is taken. You want more opportunities if possible, more internship opportunities. Balraj, if I may add this. Yes, yes, go on. So one point I want to also make is, we do ask the professors, so they are open to offering internships during summer and winter. Now, the professors also have to take up other projects. They also have to travel to other countries. Sometimes take up teaching positions for brief time and so on. So a professor sometimes, he's very eager and willing to take interns, but at the last moment something like this comes up and they will have to withdraw. So we can only put pressure, only so much pressure on the professors to do this. So it is slowly growing. So hopefully in the next couple of years, this will become a really good full-fledged program and we will be able to accommodate more and more toppers as interns. So we are also approaching as many professors as possible and trying to persuade them to take our good students as interns. So let's hope that this will grow more. Thanks. Thank you, thank you madam. You're doing a wonderful job madam. That's not, definitely it's a very good opportunity for this. Thank you sir. Thanks, thank you for the kind words. Thank you. Excuse me, I am from Jammu. Where are the students will apply for the internship at IIT Jammu or they can apply it and all other. No sir, no sir, students do not apply. So how it works out is, the first we approach the professors and ask them if they are willing to take interns during a summer or a winter break. Then if the professor says yes and says, okay, this time I can take two students or three students. Then what we do is, we write to the students asking them to fill a Google form and asking them their willingness to participate in the internship program. So there is no place for the students to apply. We approach the students, we write to the students based on the availability and the willingness of the course instructor. Hope it's clear. Okay. And ma'am, whether the accommodation is provided to the students at IIT or? Yes, as much as possible, we will provide accommodation within the campuses because we also want them to get the full experience of the IITs or the IITs wherever they come. So as much as possible, we will try, if let's say there is no accommodation available during the time, we will try to guide them as to where they can get accommodation outside. We have to obey the students only regarding internships that IITs are going to contact. So from your standpoint, you have to motivate the students to do as best as possible in the course. They have to score the best marks. Only those with the best marks will be called as interns. So your role is to motivate them to do, not just participate in an online course and get certified and so on. Their role, they have to do their best and score the best marks. And then, if the opportunity comes, they'll be selected. Okay, thank you, Maan. Thank you very much. Yeah, Beldarju and Geetha, go on. Yeah, we'll be happy to take more queries, sir, if you have any queries regarding internships. But like Kaplaman said, I think doing well in certification courses is very critical. Go on, sir. Sir, this is not with internship. I just want to know, Microsoft linked the program you have started and you're asking for the details from the ELC's good performing and says, actually what kind of certification courses Microsoft is going to offer? There is no clear details. Kamala, Maan, or Geetha, do you want to answer? Because currently I'm not handling this. Yeah, see, I'm also not very clear on this. So I think we have sent an email. So this particular course is first for the teachers. And once the teachers complete, I think then they can offer it to students. So this is the basic understanding that I have. Sir, if you need more details, please send an email to local chapter ID. I will check it with a concerned team and we'll get back to you. Okay, initially they ask for the number of practicality. Yeah, that is for them to get a basic, just a basic count, approximate count for the team to understand what kind of help they should render and so on. So any further doubt, sir, I'm not too sure about the program. I'm yet to get involved in that program. So if you have any further doubt, please send an email, sir, and we will check with the right team and get back. Okay, okay. Thank you, sir, thank you. Ma'am, shall we get the PPDs? If we get the PPDs, we can share with our students so that it will be helpful for them. This PPD, sir, you want this PPD? Oh, yeah, yeah. We'll come back to you, sir, because there's some other information with respect to companies is available. We can remove and give you some abstract slides so that some students' personal information is there. We'll try to remove and share with you, sir. Oh, okay, thank you, sir. Yeah, any other queries from other Sparks who are part of this discussion today? We hope all of you are able to hear me. Yes, sir. Yeah, if there are any queries, we'll be happy to answer. Otherwise, we can close the session. Yeah, so I think, Balaji, we can be here for another five, 10 minutes. If anybody has any questions, they can put it in the chat or raise your hand. Otherwise, if others are happy, they have gotten enough information, then you can choose to leave also. Thank you all. Okay, thanks everyone for joining the session. Balaji, you can stop the live streaming and close.