Interview with Shri Balwant, Chairperson Date:   Monday , September 06, 2010 What do you think that makes your Institute an ideal place for learning? Shri Balwant Institute of Technology (SBIT) is located at Sonepat (NCR Delhi). The campus is spread over 20 acres of plush greenery, only about 15 minutes drive from Delhi border. It is in the hub of educational and entrepreneurial activities and located adjacent to proposed Rajeev Gandhi Education City. Guest lecturers from leading industry and industrial visits, industry interaction, are a regular feature of SBIT. How do you prepare your students to keep up to the pace as it is the current scenario while gaining momentum in employment zone? SBIT is having credentials and approval, with alliances and accreditation with renowned and leading organizations providing training facilities and proper exposure on the latest technologies. How do you define alliances and accreditation with the various companies? Well, organizations like HCL have an alliance and accreditation with SBIT. Microsoft, Redhat and IBM have academic alliance apart from this we have signed MoU with the companies like Manpower, Authbridge, for Placements. How do you define parameters that make a selected institute? The first and foremost parameter that defines a good engineering college is the quality of education being imparted. In case of alliances and accreditations we have the best as mentioned earlier along with experienced faculties from the best of industries. The group of educationists of, M.Tech and M.Phil PhD holders among them having also had worked in their concerned fields. To improve the overall personality of the student, co-curricular and PDP classes have been interspersed along with the regular curriculum. How are the students being exposed globally, as they are being taught at the institute? We are continuously holding seminars and workshops, inviting guest-speakers from various companies and organization to share their valuable experience. Well, companies like “Manpower” and Auth-Bridge” have been invited to asserts the strength of the students to be work friendly and be successful at all levels at the “Campus Interviews” What is your plan for increasing the employability of the students? We have tied up with HCL, Manpower, Authbridge Cadzone, Building Blocks for placement partnership and also providing technical & soft skill input to all students under Corporate Excellence Programme. What is Corporate Excellence Programme? Corporate excellence programme is a complete technical programme, designed and executed by the industry and runs parallel to the regular university programme. At the end of the programme students are provided joint certificates from Industry & SBIT. How is your institute working toward the development of the Local people? This is our utmost responsibility to contribute towards the society. We run a program called “Koshish” under which we provide free Computer and English classes to all the students who are in need. What success have you had in safe guarding and maintaining fair Acers to higher education? Initially it suggests that advance research has not the detrimental effect on participation of students. We are planning to launch our journal – “SBIT Journal of Science & Technology”. We are also planning to set up an incubation centre in the campus for various latest technologies. It has been said, it is the survival of the fittest at all levels. Is it true? However it may be said, several factors have been kept in mind to help the students to make the final break through. Good institutions can be judged over the years with parameters which make the institution student friendly, such as l Pedagogy l Infrastructure & facilities. l Quality of faculty l Academic excellence l And placements I am proud to believe that SBIT with state of art facilities have fulfilled the dream of the students to quality technocrats. Do not you think inflation and unemployment have bugged the students to acquire the best of the industries? Unemployment has always been a persisting problem, not because of lack of job but due to mismatch between knowledge skill and attitude yet continuous pursuits involving the students to be focused by educational Institutions and requirements for the jobs. It is our duty to polish the skills in terms of academics along with practical training and learning process should be innovation driven: - encouraging carrying out research work and so forth.