CHANDIGARH: Considering the shortage of professionals across industry verticals, Nasscom will conduct Nasscom Assessment Competence (NAC) tests for professionals that have graduated from engineering colleges but have not been placed.
“Nasscom, along with the HRD ministry, has come out with sponsored finishing schools for the IT industry that also employ engineers. This test will not cater to freshers but to professionals who have already graduated from engineering colleges as a second chance to make them employed.
Under the name of NAC Tech, the test will be applicable to graduates who have passed out of colleges before the academic year 2006,” says Dr Sandhya Chintala, director-education initiative of Nasscom.
ET has also learnt that the HRD ministry will roll out the first programme in 100 colleges, beginning from seven NITs and IIT Roorkee. “By September-October, NAC Tech will be completely ready and the HRD ministry will choose specific colleges where the programmes will be rolled out,” adds Dr Chintala.
Making humble beginnings, the test will be administered on 100 students in one batch and those clearing it will make it to the training session. The complete strategy of the programme will be finalised by May-June.
For now, ET has learnt that it will be a 8-week programme and will consist of 240 hours of contact classes, 120 hours of open classes, 80 hours of core engineering studies, 80 hours of soft-skill development and 80 hours of specialisation in a field of students’ choice.
The criterion for students who want to appear for the test has been chalked out tough only partly. For now, an aggregate is being decided by Nasscom and a joint committee of HRD ministry, which would be a pre-requisite.
The fee of the training programme will be close to Rs 5,000 and students will have to bear additional charges for boarding and lodging. Other than this, Nasscom and the HRD ministry are also looking at replicating the NAC test format for the banking, financial services, insurance sector as well as retail. “These sectors are upcoming and there is a lot of talk on inadequate human resource,” informed Dr Chintala. | 
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