NIST University

One of the major proposals in the New Education Policy (NEP 2020) is the creation of Multidisciplinary Universities (MDUs), one in every district of the country. While we have over 875 universities, only a handful are truly multidisciplinary. Most of the developed states have more than one university per district but the north-eastern and hill states and others like Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha have less than one university per district. In order to meet the one MDU per district criterion, over 100 plus new MDUs would need to be set up and many of the existing ones would need substantial expansion and strengthening to confer a multidisciplinary character. MDU has been understood to imply a bouquet of disciplines such as arts, sciences, commerce, law, architecture, engineering, medicine for study within the university. The underlying philosophy of promoting MDUs is laudable as students are free to choose courses from different disciplines which not only gives them a liberal outlook thr...

With the services sector rapidly evolving and driving the country to the forefront of tech-driven innovation, global capability centers have emerged as key nodes for transformation, business strategies and new technologies, helping organisations be agile in a highly dynamic environment. Global capability centers, also known as GCCs or GICs, are offshore units of multinational corporations that operate across the globe. These centers are responsible for providing various support services, such as IT, finance, human resources, and analytics, to their parent organizations. Earlier, these units were primarily established to offshore back-office processes, but that is not the case today. GCCs of today handle more complex line items across the organisation’s value chain. They have become centers of operational excellence, product development and innovation hubs. Hence, B.Tech Graduates from top engineering colleges in India such as NIST University are standing at the cusp of leveraging these...