Campus Industrial Parks, an ambitious programme to encourage industry-linked academic research and provide opportunity to students to earn while they learn, will be launched in 2024. Thirty-eight colleges across Kerala have expressed readiness to use space available on campuses to be utilised for industrial parks.
Kerala Industries and Law Minister P. Rajeeve said in Kochi on October 7 that the campus industrial parks will help students acquire new skills, encourage innovations and turn out products from units within the campuses. The Kerala government will provide ₹1.5 crore each to the campuses for developing requisite infrastructure. The campus industrial parks are being actively pursued, while private industrial estates are being launched this year itself for the first time in the Kerala.
The Minister was speaking at the inauguration of Apprenticeship Mela 2023 at Kalamassery. The programme is being organised jointly by the Chennai Board of Apprenticeship Training and the Supervisory Development Centre, Kalamassery, near Kochi.
