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Government Engineering College · Nagpur
Government Institution
Closing the industry-readiness gap with zero increase in budget.
2.1×
More offers, same spend
₹0
Additional placement budget
340+
Students covered
The placement cell had one part-time officer and no budget for outside training vendors — while private colleges nearby ran fully staffed placement departments with dedicated trainers for every skill track.
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We were never going to out-spend the private colleges. We just needed to stop guessing which students needed help, and use the one officer we had where it mattered.
Placement Officer, Government Engineering College, Nagpur
Challenge
One officer, no vendor budget, a widening gap
With no funds for external trainers, the placement cell's only lever was faculty time — and faculty time was being spread evenly across a batch with very uneven needs.
Approach
Free assessments, gap-targeted faculty hours
Readiness assessments replaced guesswork, and the placement officer used faculty free periods to run small-group sessions targeted only at students flagged as at-risk that week.
Result
More than double the offers, same rupee spent
Offers more than doubled year-over-year for the eligible batch, entirely through better-targeted use of existing faculty time — with no new hires and no external spend.
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