Steel for the Nation ---- Biju Patnaik National Steel Institute
The vision:
Biju Patnaik National Steel Institute, Puri, is the new founded concept institute of modern steel technology. BPNSI aims to provide to the nation well equipped, trained and on the job experienced technicians
all ready for the market. It shall provide practical, shop floor training to the engineering graduates as opposed to the usual theory based approach, thus making them more adept to cope with deviations and casualties. The institute shall also cater to refine the level of the back end industry requirements like shop floor assistants and technicians for the steel sector, i.e. to improve their knowledge and reskill them.
The institute has been conceptualized on the lines of the IlMs and IITs and the faculty and students have also been selected and screened in a manner to suit this objective. It is expected that the institute shall live up to the expectations specially keeping
in view the excellent and experienced teaching staff who have been recruited to educate and fine tune the knowledge of the students to prepare them directly for the industry.
Steel is the backbone of any economy and the health of the steel industry has a chain effect on the growth and prosperity of numerous ancillary industries. It itself employs a large work force and stimulates employment in downstream and upstream industries. Realizing its importance, all major
countries in the world have been making large investments in steel capacity and the world steel production has been growing. In the year 2000, the production of crude steel in the world reached a record level of 847 million tonnes. In contrast to this, production of finished steel in India was only 29.7 mt, which is merely 3.8 per cent of the total world steel production. However, even this small quantity is difficult to consume and we have to export 2-3 mt to keep our production line on .
Given a production capacity of 35mt and a per capita consumption level of only 27 kgs as against a world average of 116 kgs, we need to do a lot to ensure an increase in the level of consumption. There exist a considerable lack of downstream facilities like fabrication and welding which can contribute suitable to boost consumption. To open up this potential market BPNSI endeavors to contribute towards human resource development besides providing basic education required for the steel industry.
To ensure that the courses start with the advent of the year 2002, they are being flagged off from a temporary housing facility while the original building is on the process of completion. At present the institute shall
provide about four courses, mostly non-conventional ones including – steel making, computer courses and trade courses. Later we shall try to encompass the many divergent fields of steel technology.
BPNSI has received active help and support from the government. The Steel Ministry has extended extensive financial support from the Steel Development Fund to fund the institute starting from land acquisition to
construction and purchase of equipment. To bridge the dearth of trained steel shop technicians, BPNSI saw the light of day. With concerted effort of every person who has taken a positive initiative towards the establishment of BPNSI
the government and the future students the institute shall surely:
be able to gift the nation sincere, dedicated and skillful techiaicians – who can perhaps help the ailing Indian Steel Industry to compete and live in the new technology driven environment.
Location
BPN Steel Institute is presently situated in a three acre campus right at the center of the Puri sea beach. The laboratories, class rooms and the administrative offices are all housed in a 10,000 sq ft landmark building that has been renovated to house the Institute.
The Institute is developing another campus on the outskirts of Puri on a twenty
six acre land situated at about 13 km from Puri on the Puri-Konark drive.
Puri is about 50 Km by National Highway from Bhubaneswar, capital of Orissa and is
air linked through Bhubaneswar to all major cities of India. Puri is also an important train terminus and is linked with direct trains to
major cities. The Jagannath temple at Puri is one of the most important pilgrim centers in India. Puri has a number of first class hotels for accommodation and moderately priced accommodation of tourist and plenty of moderately priced housing far rental purposes.
Computer and Software Technology
Computers play a major role in all modern manufacturing industries and it is especially crucial for the steel industry for making it competitive in the global environment Unless the Indian steel companies adopt the latest steel technology and implement the best methods, procedures and processes to produce the highest quality materials and products with the least amount of capital and manpower inputs
multinational companies will snatch away their existing markets. In order to survive and prosper, steel companies, small and large must strive to increase their efficiency by optimising the utilisation of capital and manpower. Computerisation at every levrl is absolutely essential to remove the existing inefficiencies.
BPN Steel Institute aims at being the catalyst that can help the small and medium size steel companies to restructure and reengineer their production and administrative processes. Knowledge based engineering
built up with information generation, storage, retrieval and transmission is the essence of the new generation technology and its management.
1. Diploma in Software Engineering
This is a two semester, one year, full-time programme in which students learn the basics of computer organisation, operating system, data base systems and languages. The emphasis is on the practical side of acquiring the software skills so that the graduates can be gainfully employed to implement and support computerisation in the manufacturing industries, specially steel industries. This programme is equivalent to ‘Level A of DOEACC model’.
Students entering into this programme must complete Bachelor of Science (PCM) or Diploma in Engineering with 50 per cent minimum aggregate.
2. Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering
This is a two semester or one year full time programme in which students can learn thoroughly all the important topics belated to software engineering, computer architecture, operating systems, database systems, object-oriented programming systems, data communication and networks, principles of programming languages, data structures, compilers or artificial intelligence. The emphasis is again on the
practical side so that the graduates learn to apply knowledge and skills gained in the theory classes. This programme is equivalent to ‘Level B of DOEACC model’.
Students entering this programme must complete Diploma in Software Engineering offered by the institute or should have equivalent training and academic background.
3. Advanced Diploma in Manufacturing Applications
This is a two-semester, one year full time programme in which students learn about the latest software tools and technology. In addition, they are specially trained in different software applications relating to the manufacturing industry. For example, the students are taught about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) requirements and their implementation in the customer environment.
Students entering this programme must pass with 50 per cent minimum in the Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering course, they should complete a BE degree in Computer Science and .Engineering or Information Technology.
4. Diploma in Computer Systems and Maintenance
This is a one semester, six month full time programme in which students learn the basics of computer organisation with special emphasis on the workings of personal computers. They learn about how computers and peripherals are networked together in the local area environment. They will be taught how to detect hardware and software problems in the computer laboratories and techniques and tools to fix the problems.
Students entering into this programme must have completed Bachelor of Science (PCM) or Diploma in Engineering with 50 per cent minimum in aggregate.
