Dhanbad based premiere college Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University in its effort to diversify in new areas of education is gearing up to launch certificate and diploma courses in different foreign languages, including, French, Japanese, Spanish and German.

The university launched the Geological Museum and Microscopic laboratory on August 6.

To begin with, the college has decided to launch the one year certificate course in Japanese and French in the upcoming session as all necessary preparation including the liaisoning with the faculty members for conducting classes has already been completed.

Gradually the certificate course in other two foreign languages including Spanish and German will also be launched.

Talking to The Telegraph Online on Monday, B.K. Sinha, Principal of P.K. Roy Memorial College Dhanbad said, “The aim of launching the foreign language course is to provide the opportunity to the students to secure the high paid jobs in MNS, BPO, KPO, IT and call centres besides in embassies, travel and tourism industry and also in international organizations like, UNESCO, EU etc.”

“The decision to launch the foreign language course is part of the our comprehensive plan to diversify in different areas of professional and vocational education besides the traditional areas of academics as per which we have also decided to launch the five year integrated B Ed course, Fashion designing course, BCA, BBA, B Sc Honours in Computer Science etc,” said Sinha.

The launching of new courses will add to vibrancy to the college academic scenario that will ultimately help to improve the college ranking during the upcoming visit of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), scheduled next month as the College at present has B grade and is vying for A grade which will ultimately help to increase its funding from institutions like UGC, MHRD etc.

Divulging more details, Mantosh Pandey, Head of Department of English of College who is also coordinator of the course said, “While the certificate course will be of one year duration the Diploma and Degree courses will be of two and three years duration respectively.”

“Anyone who has secured at least 45% marks in aggregate at Plus two level with English as one of the subjects is eligible for admission in course and total fee for the course is Rs 7200 including Rs 5500 as admission fee, Rs 500 each for College admission fee and University Examination fee and Rs 700 as University registration fee,” said Pandey who is also the Head of the Department of Mass Communication of BBMKU.

“We have decided to begin the certificate course with one European i.e French and One Asian language, i e Japanese both of which have tremendous job potentials,” said Pandey and added that mission behind launching of the course is to help students become proficient, listeners, speakers, readers and writers in target languages.