Navsarjan Sankuls:  To bring industries and GTU Colleges together, GTU is planning to set up Navsarjan Sankuls.  Each Sankul will represent a cluster of GTU Colleges and the industries in the area. One such Sankul of which your college would be a member will be set up soon by GTU.  GTU and Techpedia are creating 20 Navsarjan Sankuls which will cut through the inertia of non-contact and will develop a new model of Industry-Institute Collaboration, based on innovation at the grass roots level. When in three years, every one of its more than 100,000 final year students and more than 20,000 faculty members are out in the field with the requirement that an innovative Final Year project is to be completed and put on the Techpedia, when there will be no way to hide the work, when good work will be awarded year after year and when thousands of small and big industries get the opportunity of thinking, jointly with young minds and faculty members about continuous improvements in their products and when the law students work to make patent process and IPR processes easy, an entirely new environment of innovations will be created.

To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industry and total student population of 250,000 in all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses like Engineering, Management, pharmacy, MCA and Polytechniques students and 10,000 plus faculties in GTU Techpedia and GTU have designed a joint action plan for creations of 20 Navsarjan Sankul in Gujarat.( 166 industry clusters+ 500 colleges of GTU will be divided into 20 innovation zones) The capacity of each Sankul will be built by involving faculty members, professionals, students and owners of industries and encouraging each Sankul to develop a methodology of working, which inculcates innovation through joint working. At the end of every year, the working will be modulated after a review of the work during the year is done. This will lead to a cycle of capacity building and renewal during the year. During the summer thousands of students and faculty members will work jointly with industries to determine the Industry Defined Problems (IDP). These may relate to improving the quality of the products. Or these may be for solving some problems, relating to the industries. At the beginning of the academic year, the output from the students will be evaluated and it will be uploaded on the Techpedia. These platforms will explore opportunities to improve access, affordability, sustainability, efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in the needy domain of socio-technical applications and key focus on BOP. This will foster an innovation eco-system across domains and sectors to strengthen entrepreneurship modules even among students.

An Udisha1 Club at every GTU College: To take advantage of the Sankuls and to organize other placement activities at each College, it has been suggested that every GTU college should set up a Club. The Principals/ Directors of every GTU-affiliated institution should set up the Club to kick- start the activities before 15th of February 2011.

General Guidelines for setting up a Club:

• Each club will have an Executive Committee.
• The Executive Committee will have some faculty and students of various branches as members.  One of the faculty members will act as its coordinator.
• Faculty Members: As far as possible, each Branch should have one faculty member in the Executive Committee.
• Student Members: As far as possible, from every Branch, there may be one student from each year. Thus during this semester, from each branch, there may be three students, one each from the first, the second and the third year respectively.

The members of the Executive Committee at a College will be nominated by the Principal/ Director of the College. The Training and Placement Officer of the College may be an important member of the Club.
The Principal/ Director will be the Patron of the Club.

Activities :

1. The club will coordinate the activities of corresponding Navsarjan Sankul at college level.  
2. To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industries, society and the College.Scouting, documenting and value adding the local innovations.
3. To decide about the Final Year projects in consultation with industries.
4. To be able to seek and get the help of industries in execution of the Final Year project by way of
5. Mentoring
6. Help by way of materials
7. Help in evaluation of the project
8. To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries and societies.
9. To have students and teachers visit industries
10. To have summer internships in the industries
11. To work out exchange of teachers and professionals from the industry
12. To participate in the activities of the industry associations for developing a closer inter-action by helping the
13. To organize continuing education programs for industries by assessing the needs of the industry and society.
14. To harness the effective potential of young technical minds and faculties.
15. The Club will work towards ensuring that every student gets an excellent placement after she/ he completes his/ her studies. For this purpose, the activities will be as follws:
16. Club would  Providing information about career options and job avenues
17. Career counseling and placement.
18. Training for developing Soft skills
19. Motivational activities
20. Organizing mock-interviews to equip students with interview etiquettes at college level
21. Arranging local campus – interviews

The Club may consult the Principal if it wants to take up any other extra curricular activity.  (UDISHA) by Commissioner, Higher Education Department, Gujarat State.

Please inform GTU at ___________________________ about the cotact details of the Coordinator and the names of the Club Executive Committee.

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The name has been borrowed from the Clubs, being promoted by the Commissioner for Higher Education, through the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat.