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Career in Mining and Mineral Industry

There is high demand for the mining engineers in gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, and Kuwait. So these countries provide good career opportunities for those candidates who find their career in this field. Mining and Mineral Industry in India has also develop. It made a significant progress and has potential growth in this sector. In India, it is estimated that 85 billion tones mineral reserves are remain to be exploited. In India, there is a growing demand for operational engineer and management professionals in this industry in both public and private sector.
Education Qualifications

Following are the Institutions which provide the courses demanded in Mining and Mineral Industry:

* Indian School Of Mines: B.Tech and M.Tech in Mining Engineering, Mineral Engineering, Mining Machinery, Petroleum Engineering, Open cast & surface.

* Central Fuel Research Institute: Reseach in Chemical & Liquid Fuels, Energy Management, Environmental Management, Coal Preparation, Coal Carbonization, Coal Liquification & Gasification, Power Coal, Fuel Science.

* Department of Fuel and Mineral Engineering: B.Tech in Meneral Engineering -4 year duration M.Tech in Meneral Engineering- 3 semesters M.Tech in Fuel Engineering- 3 semesters

* Institute of Technology: B.Tech and M.Tech in Coal Mining, degree courses in Mining, Metallurgy, Mine Planning and Metallurgy, Ceramics and Pharmaceutics.

Career Opportunities

Employment in mining and mineral industry means a technical job with the help of tools and techniques used for exploration, drilling, extraction, refining etc. With the new projects and demand coming in this industry, there is a variety of scope and demand for the professionals like civil engineering, structural engineering, Geotechnical engineering, General engineering, Hydraulic engineering, construction engineering, electrical engineering, piping design engineering, Health and safety engineers, energy auditors, Mechanical engineers, and fire engineers

Career in BPO Sector

The BPO Sector is one of the most rapidly growing industries in India, as it provides high paying jobs to new graduates. BPOs usually pay higher salaries than other industries. It the fastest developing sector of Information Technology Enabled Service Industry. The BPO is Business Process Outsourcing. It provides various types of services like telemarketing services, customer care services, employee IT help desk service, technical support services, data entry and conversion services, online research, form processing services, insurance services and scanning OCR with editing and indexing services.
Education Qualifications

Following qualifications are required along with different segments of BPO sector in which such qualifications required:

* At Call-Centre- good communication skills, understanding of accents, team leadership and basic knowledge of computers.

* Date Search & Integration- good command over language, computer and analytical skills

* Human Resource Services – policies of HR of a particular country along with its rules and regulations

* Design & Engineering- having knowledge of technical and engineering design and having computer skills

* Animation- knowledge of computer graphics, good drawing skills and creativity

* Translation , Localization and Medical Transcription- knowledge of medical terms, good communication skills, basic computer knowledge

* Finance and Accounting- knowing national or international accounting rules

* Network consultancy and Management- basic computer skills, knowledge of networking concepts and hardware

* Market Research- knowledge of sales and marketing concepts

* Remote Education- knowledge of the given subject, having computer and language skills

* Remote Customer Interaction- good command over language and understanding of the accent

Training

Many companies who are top rankers in providing various training to the candidates on the basis of different criterias. The companies which provides such training are Convergys, Daksh e-service, Zenta, WSN Group, Tracmail, Mphasis, HCL technologies, GTL Ltd, Wipro Spectramind, EXL, ICICI onesource, Sutherland Technologies and many more.

Career Opportunities

A career in a BPO sector is very easy as it provide in-house training to their employees. Basically a candidate must be graduate in any branch can get job in BPO sector. Moreover no academic specialization is required and there is no specific age bar in this field. The employees also get good salaries along with some extra benefits on the basis of target completion, performance, attendance, over all behavior etc. BPO sector try to attract the youngsters by providing them transport facilities. Because of all the above mentioned merits many people are willing to make their career in this field

Scholarships for Higher Education

The cost of education especially higher education is rising in India. While a number of banks and financial institutions offer educational loans, one must remember that loans have to be serviced with interest and hence if one can avail oneself of various scholarships offered for pursuing higher education in different streams, nothing like it. Following are a few schemes which one can avail of in one’s pursuit of higher education:

Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation
The scholarship program is available for studies in pure sciences, applied sciences, engineering, information technology, management and business administration.

Eligibility
You can apply if you have an excellent academic background and extra curriculum activities to your credit. The scholarship is available for pursuing post graduation studies in top institutes in India and abroad. Upper age limit for availing of the scholarship is 30 years.

Amount
Scholarship to the extent of 50% of the total tuition fee upto a maximum of Rs. 10 lakh is offered per scholar.

Application form
Application form can be downloaded from website and has to be submitted with a demand draft/money order/cash in favor of Narottam Sekhsaria Foundation to Narottam Sekhsaria Foundation, 46, Maker Chambers III, Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021, Maharashtra.
Website: www.nsscholarship.com

Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Government of India offers 10 national/overseas scholarships for SC candidates in the field of Engineering, Technology and Sciences for two years (Masters Degree), 3 years (PHD) and one to six months (post Doctoral Research).

Eligibility
Bachelor Degree (minimum 50 percent and 2 years of relevant work experience). For Masters Degree, eligibility is two years teaching/professional experience or Mphil. For PHG, minimum of 5 years of teaching/professional experience is required. Income limits is Rs. 18000/- per month for all categories. Age limit applicable is 35 years.

Application form
Application form can be sent to Education Section, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Room No. 217, D Wing, Shastri Bhawan, Rajendra Prasad Marg, New Delhi 110001.
Website: www.socialjustice.nic.in

Ministry of Environment and Forests
Government of India has the Pitambar Pant National Environment Fellowship for significant R&D contribution in the field of environment sciences and BP Pal National Environment Fellowship for significant contribution in the field of Biodiversity. Eligibility: Indian citizens, Age limit is 55 years.

Scholarship Amount:
A Fellowship of Rs. 26000/- PM is offered and a contingency grant of Rs. 100000/- PA is also offered.

Application Form:
Information Facilitation Centre, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi 110003 Website: https://envfor.nic.in

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