Skill and Personality Development Programme Centre (SPDC)

VIT, Pune has a Skill and Personality Development Programme Centre (SPDC) as a central facility that will conduct skill and personality development training for our Institution’s SC/ST students. AICTE sponsors the SPDC under the AICTE Quality Improvement Scheme (AQIS) from AY 2019-20. This scheme provides an opportunity for SC/ST students in the Institute to reorient and empower themselves in light of emerging employment opportunities at all levels.

Objectives of SPDC

• To provide training, support and guidance for SC/ST students of various disciplines on the lines of international level
• To empower the SC / ST students by training them in skills like personality development and soft skills to compete with the other students for industrial employability opportunities
• To improve the skills of SC / ST students by facilitating them to enhance their academic knowledge in emerging areas
• To inculcate the skill sets like Communication, Problem-solving, Creativity, IT skills, and Teamwork
• To organise the open house and personality development workshops, competitions among students

Focused Areas of SPDC

• Communication skills are necessary to convey ideas and exchange information by organizing various orientation programmes.
• Problem-solving skills are needed to deal with the process of finding solutions to complex challenges. Problem-solving skills are developed by conducting lecture hours and online mode training. 
• Teamwork is essential to develop interpersonal skills and leadership qualities in students by organizing project competitions and team activities. 
• Creativity is the use of imagination and ideas to create something new. It helps students come up with new ideas. Developing various conceptual models in different disciplines improves creativity.
• Provide training on the latest programming languages with hands-on sessions.

Benefits to the students from the SPDC

• Students of the SC / ST sector will have increased employment opportunities
• Enable the youth to obtain respectable job opportunities
• Improve productivity and knowledge of the students
• Students will get strong academic knowledge of their discipline to compete with the industry trends
• Obtain proficiency in English language
• Improve communication skills, both written and verbal and focus on personality development
• Imbibe proficiency in programming languages by developing technical skills
• Strengthen the aptitude and problem-solving skills
• Students will be able to attend any competitive exam with a high level of confidence

Prof. Dr. Vijay Mane

Coordinator – SPDC

Dean Analytics Associate  Professor, E & TC
VIT, Pune