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Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has unearthed cases of students applying for internships successful unusual places, companies that person unopen down, and successful immoderate instances, adjacent bars and restaurants and hairsbreadth clinics. Having detected these, the VTU has issued warnings to the students.
These cases person travel to airy during the verification of online applications submitted by students for internship.
In 1 case, a pupil applied for support to bash an internship astatine a backstage company. Upon verification, it turned retired that the institution had closed down a twelvemonth ago.
Another pupil claimed to person applied for an internship astatine a spot with a sanction that sounded similar an engineering company, which, upon verification, turned retired to beryllium a barroom and edifice successful Chennai.
In different case, a pupil applied nether the sanction of a well-known tegument and hairsbreadth attraction session successful Bengaluru. But, the pupil had mentioned the code of Denmark nether this clinic’s name.
In yet different case, a pupil wanted to bash internship successful a question company, which had been listed by the pupil has offering “IT internship for the relation of Trainee Software Developer Intern (Travel-Tech Platform)”.
The VTU has warned students that they are allowed to bash internships successful registered and authorised companies only. It has warned that disciplinary enactment would beryllium taken if specified cases were repeated.
Engineering students are required to bash a minimum of six-months of internship successful the 7th oregon 8th semesters to get the indispensable skills successful the watercourse they are studying. The assemblage has allocated 9 credits for internship.
The VTU has an internship portal to facilitate engineering students, and they tin registry determination with companies offering internships. Most students bash internships successful the companies listed connected this portal. A full of 82,000 students and 14,000 1000 companies person registered connected the portal this year.
On the different hand, students are besides allowed to bash internships successful companies of their choice. These students person to upload the accusation of the companies they are going to bash internship successful the portal and get support from the internship coordinator.
However, during the verification, it has travel to airy that immoderate students tried to bash internships successful fake companies.
“We volition o.k. internship applications lone aft strict verification. That is wherefore we created this caller portal, to guarantee everything is checked systematically. It is advisable to bash internships successful companies registered connected our portal. Disciplinary enactment volition beryllium taken against students who effort to perpetrate amerciable acts,” said S. Vidyashankar, Vice-Chancellor of VTU.
