ludhiana with school board exams under way the city colleges have drawn up plans to launch several new courses in the 200910 academic session malkiat singh principal of scd government college which plans to introduce an honours course in computer science said we recently created two posts for the course which students had been demanding for the past many years he added last year we started the threeyear bca pgdca and bsc food technology degree courses after studying current trends we are only the second government boys college in punjab to offer these vocational courses which will equip students to meet the job requirements in the information technology and related sectorsgovernment college for women plans to offer a biotechnology course from the next session college principal rk aulakh said though we have not yet received the affiliation certificate we are hopeful of getting it soonkhalsa college for women will introduce some addon courses in animation and graphics computer based accounting as well as a call center training programme from the next academic session said principal virinder kaur we were looking for some courses that could open more employment prospects for our students as more and more of them are now going in for joboriented courses these courses would be open for candidates from all backgroundsarya college for women has applied for approval of bca iii unit and even kamla lohtia sd college has applied for one extra unit of bca bcom and bba principal mm gupta said these courses are very popular these days no one wants to go in for the traditional courses and most students seek admission in professional coursessri aurobindo college of commerce management which has been running commerce courses will now offer a management course bba jai prakash a senior lecturer at the college said members of the panjab university inspection committee visited our college and recommended granting it affiliation for the bba programme our principal aim is to provide the best facilities to studentsdd jain college for women also plans to launch new courses said college media coordinator hitesh this year we had applied to panjab university for affiliation of pgdca and the third unit of bca though we were already offering the pgdca course it was not affiliated with pu we hope to get the affiliation soon as members of the university committee have already inspected our collegeggn khalsa college has also applied for an extra unit of bca bcom and pgdca as well as some addon courses in commerce and computer sciencesnew courses planned for next sessionl scd government college computer science honoursl government college for women biotechnologyl arya college bca 3rd unitl ggn khalsa college extra unit of bca bcom pgdcal khalsa college for women addon courses in animation graphics computer based accountingl kamla lohtia sd college extra unit of bca bcom bbal sri aurobindo college of commerce bba l dd jain college pgdca and bca 3rd unit