bhubaneswar private engineering colleges of the state have demanded the state government to open some centres of excellence at different places to make the engineering students industryreadythe centres will have highend training equipment and instructors to train the students on various practical courses of the engineering courses the nearby engineering colleges can come to the centre and get industrial trainingmembers of the odisha private engineering college association opeca met odisha governor ganeshi lal on saturday and discussed with him about the issue they said establishment of these centres will help the students to get jobs in industries opeca general secretary binod dash said private engineering colleges cannot build such expensive centres private engineering colleges are functioning under the biju patnaik university of technology bput the university can set up these centres at clusters of colleges with the help of the state he addedsince there is always a gap between what is taught and what an industry needs so bput must open centre of excellence specialized training centre for job oriented training in automobile sector it sector mechanical sector in various places for bput students like central tool room and training centre cttc said dash a professor said more than 26000 engineering seats will lie vacant this year because students do not choose private engineering colleges the centres will make the students employable and help them to get jobs this initiative will attract the students towards engineering he added sunil sarrangi former director of national institute of technology rourkela said it is a good proposal the centre of excellence should be established in a fair manner to cater to the need of all the colleges we need talented human resources to run the centres we have to create these people in order to train the engineering students and maintain the facilities it should be created keeping the future in mind he added governor has expressed happiness over the proposal given by the association he will look into the matter after discussing with experts official sources said