CIPET provides ray of hope to unemployed youth
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 08 2015 : According to the 2012-13 unemployment survey of Manipur, 31 per 1000 persons of the State are currently unemployed.

The figures however do not seem to deter the students of CIPET from building a well established career despite the lack of Govt job opportunities in the land.

The present campus of Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) at Takyelpat was established in 1988.The campus began functional as a plastic institute in late 1989 with only 8 students training under the institute, CIPET training in-charge Irom Ranjit Singh, told The Sangai Express in an exclusive interview.

The institute was established with the sole aim of providing education to youth who cannot afford to aim for higher studies.

Providing diploma courses in plastic processing, testing and moulding design to standard X and above students, the institute at present has about 160 to 200 students.

Machineries at CIPET

CIPET qualified graduates have been placed in supervisory/managerial positions in different technical departments of plastic conversion/processing/tooling/raw material manufacturing industries not only in India but also in other South East Asian, Middle East and North American countries, Ranjit Singh said.

Recently on March 7, 2015 CIPET graduate and entrepreneur Manoharmayum Manihar Sharma was conferred the National Innovation Award by President Pranab Mukherjee for his 'solar multi silk reeling cum spinning machine', Ranjit informed.

Manihar has been conferred with various other innovative awards in the past.

Another such successful graduate from the institute is entrepreneur Kh Ibochouba who has set up a micro-industrial unit within the CIPET complex and has been successfully manufacturing packaging items like plastic containers, water and juice bottles.

His unit has also been manufacturing packaging containers for the juice company 'Likla' .

These entrepreneurs have not only built a career of their own but they have also provided employment opportunities to many others.

'We provide 100 per cent employment opportunities.

Not a single student from the institute are jobless,' Ranjit Singh claimed.

The institute also offers short term vocational training for North East students, CIPET assistant technical officer and vocational training-in-charge Sagolsem Ibotomba stated.

In 2014, the institute provided six months vocational training to 240 students from North East.

About 200 students, at present have registered for the same course at the institute.

With an aim to produce 20 entrepreneurs every year, the institute has been organising various entrepreneur development programmes under the Directorate of Science and Technology every year.

CIPET plans to introduce a tool room into its infrastructure in its next academic session for manufacturing iron products.

The required machines would arrive at the institute shortly, Ibotomba informed.

The institute functions under the Department of Chemical and Petrochemical Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizer, Government of Manipur.