| Wednesday, May 21, 2008
TNAU offers industry-oriented courses
Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University will offer two
industry-oriented courses to encourage entrepreneurial, management
and business skills among agri-students, besides its regular
degree courses.
According to a TNAU release, the courses – B.Tech. (Food
Process Engineering) and B.Tech. (Energy and Environmental Engineering)
– are approved by the All India Council for Technical
Education and accredited by the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research.
Graduates who complete the programme in food processing can
get employment opportunities in fruit, vegetable, spices, beverages,
dairy, sugar, meat, poultry and food processing equipment manufacturing
industry.
Graduates completing the programme in the energy and environmental
engineering can find employment in pollution control and energy
conservation, sugar industry, paper and pulp industries, dyeing
and textile, tanneries and waste recycling, solar and wind energy,
biomass energy and other such industries.
For these and other courses, the eligibility criteria have been
revised as per the Government norms. Candidates competing under
the open competition should have 55 per cent aggregate. Backward
candidates need to have 50 per cent, while candidates from MBC
and denotified communities require 45 per cent. Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes candidates should have a pass in Plus Two.
For details contact 0422-6611210 / 6611322 / 6611328; or visit
www.tnau.ac.in. Issue of applications are on till June 9.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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