kolkata the department of electronics communication engineering of heritage institute of technology held the inaugural ceremony of an eight day oncampus developmental workshop commencing from may 22 concluding on may 31 the workshop on electron devices communication systems was organised exclusively to mentor students from industrial training institute kolkata a seven yearold endeavour conceived by the director of the institute professor b b paira aimed to provide extensive tutelage premier laboratory facilities and vast exposure to young it aspirants in the burgeoning fields of electronics and optic communications for eager achievers like lakshminath murmu the workshop was a huge opportunity like never before the guardian figure of this enterprise executive director probir roy insisted on taking this workshop as an opportunity to hone the skills of the students even further by inculcating in them spoken english skills and a confidence that will make them marketready the department acknowledged societal responsibility in imparting such valuable training and considered this effort a mutual transfer of knowledge this years workshop saw more rigorous training sessions unlike its predecessors as each of the 18 students were intensively guided by a team of 19 faculty members using a oneonone learning process professor paira advised the students to strive to utilise this opportunity and envisioned this enterprise as a vertical movement in education hoping that this kind of an attempt would also inspire the other departments of the institute to initiate action he assured the students that they could always return to the department for further assistance even after the completion of the workshop the departments most satisfactory yield for this project is perhaps the fact that not only does the annual workshop impart beneficial training to the aspirants but it also assists in ensuring the recruitment of the trained students professor shiladitya sen head of the department said only last year students disciplined in the workshop were placed by h k chaudhuri chairman of kalyan bharti trust with the company vikram solar at our request