Apar India: Seeking Vocational Education was Never so Easy Before!

Summary: With the existence of only 234 Universities & 11,000 colleges cross our country, it's extremely difficult to cater to educational needs of lakhs & lakhs of students every year. These institutions are able to address only 6% of the relevant age group. Mr. Raj Kumar Jain, the founder of modern age Gurukul Apar India, can be credited with floating the idea of providing free professional education to students, who face difficulties in pursuing higher studies primarily due to factors such as limited availability of seats in the Government educational institutes, steep fee structure of private institutions etc.

Education sector in India still needs to be developed & worked upon. It's rational to privatize education sector as this would take off the burden from the shoulders of Government, which would then be in a good state to focus more on taking feasible steps to better Primary & Secondary Education.

 As alreay proved in the Health sector, the corporate bodies should be encouraged to shoulder the responsibility of rendering Higher education in our country. It's time to get over the age old idea of giving absolute authority to Education society to tackle education burden of our country.

Apar India was founded by Mr. Raj Kumar Jain in 1998 with the aim of providing quality-backed vocational education to more & more students of our country. Apar India offers University Degrees duly affiliated to Sikkim Manipal University in the field of Management, IT and Journalism. At present, approximately 700 students are doing varied degree courses such as MBA, BBA, MCA. BCA. BSc.IT, BA and MA in Journalism and Mass Communication from this institute.

Talking about the  background of Sikkim Manipal University, the Government of Sikkim and the Manipal Education and Medical Group co-founded Sikkim Manipal University in 1995. The University, in association with Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Manipal Universal Learning Group, offers varied distant learning courses to the students, and thus participates in bridging the gap between professional education and ever-increasing educatioon demands of masses.

Recognized as one of the most reputed education and health care services providers of India, the Manipal Education and Medical Group has been consistently offering high-quality vocational education to students for more than five decades now. It's more like a hub of  53 educational Institutions with over 1,00,000 admissions, 2 Universities (Mahe & SMU), 8 campuses, 24 Professional Colleges, 70,000 students, 1,60,000 alumni and students from 49 countries.

Incorporated under the State Legislative Act (Act IX of 1995) of the Government of Sikkim, the Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciencess is duly recognized by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and also the University Grants Commission (U. G. C.). All the  Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates offered by this University is recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and are at par with Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates of all Indian Universities/Deemed Universities/Institutions vide UGC Circular no. FI-B/92 (CPP) dt. February 1992 and AIU Circular no. EV/B (449)/94/176915-177115 dated January 1994. Hence, the students of our instituion can easily opt for highe4r education from country's premier institutions such as IITs, NSIT, JNU etc.

At present, Apar India offers degrees in the field of Management, Information Technology and Journalism.

Courses in the field of Management:

• MBA with Dual Electives (Marketing + Finance/HRM/Systems), MBA- IT, MBA - Banking, MBA - Health Care Services [(Duration . 2 years; 4 semesters), (University Fees: RS.9500/- per sem)]
• BBA [(Duration - 3 years; 6 semesters), (University Fees:RS.8500/• per sem)]

Courses in the field of Information Technology:

• BCA [(Duration - 3 years; 6 semesters), (University Fees:RS.8500/- per sem)]
• BSc.IT [(Duration - 3 years; 6 semesters), (University Fees: RS.8500/- per sem)]
• MCA [(Duration • 3 years; 6 semesters), (University Fees:RS.9500/- for I & II sem; Rs. 10,500/- from III sem onwards)]
• MSc. CS. [(Duration - 2 years; 4 semesters), (University Fees :RS.9500/- for I & II sem ; Rs. 10,500/- from III sem onwards)]

Courses in the field of Journalism:

• BA-JM [(Duration - 3 years; 6 semesters), (University Fees: RS.8000/- per sem)]
• MA-JM [(Duration • 2 years; 4 semesters), (University Fees: RS.9000/- per sem)]

Coming to the admission procedure, it's easy for students since there is no entrance examination for any of the courses available, and students can get a direct admission is any of them. The eligibilty criteria, however, for different courses are:

Undergraduate courses: 10 + 2 
Postgraduate courses: 10 +2 + 3 in any stream

The students need to submit the fees by Demand Draft issued in favour of "Sikkim Manipal University" payable at Manipal or Udupi. Apar India does not charge any additional fee for
any of its services inclusive of course books, which are made available to the students absolutely free of cost. Also, the reference books are available at the well-stocked Library of our institurte.

To help out students (facing the problem of limited seats avilability in leading institutions), aspiring to seek professional education under any circumstances & make it big in their professional arena, Apar India has come forward to lend its helping hand. Such students often find distance learning courses as the next most feasible option. Hence, it's not justified to term these courses as 'poor cousins of the regular colleges'. Thus, Apar India has stepped into the field of offering higher professional eduction, and is currently working aggresively on the concept of 'Social Entrepreneurship'. In this process, the institute offers full-time free classes to the deprived student strata, who find varied obstacles in pursuing higher education owing to the exorbitant fee charged by private educational institutions.

Working professionals can also reap the benefits of these  full-time free classes, which are conducted on weekends (on Sundays). To present its students as complete packages in the job market, Apar India focuses on overall personality development of all it students & works on different key areas such as communication skills,  theoretical & practical implementation of concepts, personality, attitude etc.

Realizing the importance of personality development in pursuing professional education, Apar India organizes Workshops and seminars on Personality Development, Yoga, Presentation skills and Group Discussions (conducted by veteran faculty) from time to time. In addition to help students gain a winning edge over the rest in the job market, the institute offers  job-oriented certificate courses such as Free Certificate Courses in Communication Skills, Foreign languages - German and French, Basics of Financial Accounting, Basics of Hardware and Networking, Personality Development etc.
Now speaking about the lodging facilities, there are separate hostel/PG accommodation facilities for boys and girls. For students arriving from distant areas such as  Assam, Bihar, Varanasi, Aligarh, Meerut, Calcutta, Thailand, Abu Dhabi etc., Apar Institute has arranged for lodging facilities & acts as their local guardian.

Apar India also has a well-established  Training & Placement Cell, which continuously monitors the market forces, and bridges the gap between the students & job sector. The  placement success stories include students getting placed in renowned companies such as GAIL, Mother Dairy, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, IBM, Birla Soft, MTNL, HDFC Bank Ltd., Indian Air Force, Eureka Forbes, Seimens etc.

The Prospectus of Apar Institute entails detailed information about all the courses & application forms for admission. It can be easily obtained against cash payment of Rs. 300/- from the Institute's office at "APAR INDIA HOUSE", C-9 / 111, Sector-8, Rohini, (Near Rohini East Metro Station), New Delhi - 110 085. Ph.: 27940626, 27949365, and 27948578.

For any admission-related enquiry, click on the below mentioned links:
Apar India College of Management and Technology
Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)-ALC 1713,2009

Source: http://aparindiacollege.blogspot.com

Date: 26th May, 2010

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