For Hindalco Renukoot, BITS Pilani Launches Work Integrated Learning BS Process Engineering program

Sept. 16, 2009 - PRLog -- BITS was initially accredited by NAAC with 5 Star rating and has recently been reaccredited by NAAC with 3.71 CGPA out of 4 and awarded VERY GOOD status. BITS Pilani has a very strong Alumni Network with Global spread from Australia through Africa to America.

Established in 1958, Hindalco Industries Limited, the metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, is an industry leader in aluminium and copper. A metals powerhouse with a consolidated turnover of Rs.600,128 million (US$ 15 billion), Hindalco is the world's largest aluminium rolling company and one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia. Its copper smelter is the world's largest custom smelter at a single location. Hindalco commissioned its aluminium facility at Renukoot in Eastern U.P. in 1962.

With a well laid out Quality, Environment, Occupational Health and Safety policy in place, Hindalco has put Human Resource Development to strengthen the competence of employees and business associates through continuous training as a top priority for achieving corporate efficacy, the ability to produce the desired results amidst the toughest of challenges.

Hindalco and BITS Pilani have a special relationship as Hindalco was the first company in India to host the Practice School Programme of BITS Pilani way back in 1972. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on October 28 2006 for fostering collaboration between the two institutions to promote academic and research interactions. Hindalco had sponsored 74 employees from its Renusagar Power Plant in Jan 2007 for undergoing the Work Integrated Learning BS Power Engineering program. Final year students from BITS Pilani have also been carrying out live real life projects at Hindalco.

BITS Pilani with its rich experience of conducting Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) for the past three decades has been offering a 3 year BS Process Engineering program from 1992 to address the HRD needs of the Process Industry majors such as Grasim Nagda, Century Rayon Kalyan, Indogulf Fertilizers Jagdispur, Finolex Ratnagiri, CPCL Chennai, Indian Rayon Veraval, Digjam Wollen Mills Jamnagar, Saurashtra Chemicals Porbandar, CFCL Gadepan, HZL Udaipur and Tata Chemicals Babrala.

On 08th September 2009 BITS and Hindalco launched the BS Process Engineering program for a batch of 26 candidates sponsored by the Aluminium major. The colourful function held at Renukkot was graced by various Hindalco executives which included Mr D K Kohly COO, Mr Arun Kumar VP HR, Mr Ratan Somani Joint President (Smelter Plant), Mr Nirmalya Sen Joint President (Fabrication Plant), Mr Swapan Kumar Das General Manager (Training & Development).

BITS Pilani was represented by Prof BR Natarajan, Dean for the Work Integrated Learning Programmes who gave details about BITS Pilani as well the features of the BS Process Engineering program and reiterated that Process is just not only the engineered sequence of Physical, Chemical and Mechanical transformations that convert a readily available raw material to a useful product in the most economic fashion but also includes the human transformations which is so vital to achieve the stated goals.

He took the opportunity to give the quote of Dr Kumar Mangalam Birla Chancellor BITS Pilani and Chairman Aditya Birla Group “What is it that can empower our nation? The most obvious answer is education. Education that enhances livelihoods but also education that is value based. Education that gives roots and gives wings as well".

Dr Natarajan also pointed out that Hindalco COO Mr D K Kohly was himself an alumnus of the very first batch of work integrated learning ME (Collaborative) Industrial Production program of BITS Pilani launched in 1979 in partnership with Grasim Nagda and urged the candidates enrolling for the BS program to be not only dreamers but also performers and achievers.

COO Mr Kohly in his address shared his own experience as a work integrated learning student of BITS Pilani and also his role as a faculty for teaching various courses of the BITS collaboration at Nagda. Duly acknowledging his association with BITS for his career achievements, Mr Kohly was emphatic in stating that he was indeed Proud to be a BITSian and handed over the admit offer letters to each of the Hindalco employees enrolling for the program.

Mr S P Jose Assistant Training officer from Hindalco welcomed the gathering and also proposed the vote of thanks.

The launching of the BS Program by Hindalco Renukoot with BITS Pilani marks yet another milestone in Industry University collaborations.

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The Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani is a Deemed to be University (established under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 under notification No. F.12-23/63, U-2 dated 18th June 1964) running educational programs both on-campus as well as off-campus, offering degrees at all three-tiers, namely, Integrated First Degree, Higher Degree and Ph.D. The Institute presently has its campuses at Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad in India and Dubai in UAE.