No More Stress on Engineering College Students

When a student completes his higher secondary education and steps into the engineering college as a fresher, sometimes the student is not able to cope up with the new environment. Most of the students have first time lived separated from home and become homesick. In such a situation, high level of stress is very natural. The pressure of increased syllabus and semester system in which exams are to be given in every six months provides additional stress apart from the environment of strangers the student faces.

In inclusion of the mentioned factors, the improper budget management also contributes to the increased pressure. Also, the food quality that the students get in the mess is unmatchable from the home food that leads to a stressful crisis. Some students do not have nature to gel up easily with the other people around and hence feels lonely and ignored. The solution to this problem lies in giving some space to students to get mingled with each other.

Induction Programmes:

The Ministry of Human Resource and Development has directed all the engineering colleges in India to introduce Induction Programmes before starting the academic sessions. The proposal has unanimously been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the direction has been forwarded to all the colleges. The idea to introduce an Induction Programme module was prepared by the Directors of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) committee lead by IIT-BHU director. The idea has already been implemented in four IITs and will cover other IITs and other institutions in the coming session.

Ingredients of Induction Programme:

With the start of a new academic session, the new students will be greeted with two to five-week long induction programme, and after completion of the programme only they would be inducted into the studies of engineering. In the induction phase, a student has to take up any activity like sports, creative interests, languages and the list go on. There would be interactive sessions among the students and between students and faculty over future plans, fulfilling the responsibility towards the country and maintaining harmonious relationships.

Benefits of the Programme:

The proposed programme will focus on the areas of societal relations, languages, building harmony & trust and possessing character through responsibility, self-reflection, an attitude of service, clarity and courage. Through this programme, the students would be able to mingle up with each other and would build up an attitude of teamwork. Also, the relationship between a faculty and a student will strengthen up. The programme will also focus on improving English Language proficiency that will help the students who will come from Non-English medium background to understand the academic course in a better way and the inferior complex among them will be diminished.

Nation Building:

Through this programme, the government wants the premier institutions to get involved in the national programmes like Make in India and Namame Gange. Through the medium of the programme, the students would be engaged in thinking about the viable technical solution of the national problems.

The plan will bring an overhaul of the education system at the graduate level, that is very much needed so as to realize the national development goals by involving the students from the very start of the session. The module will help the students to identify their interests and talents and also make them responsible towards the nation's goals.

Urmila is Post graduate in management. She writes about Indian Colleges, universities, exams and other prevalent issues.