Mangaluru’s Vikas Group offers world’s first ever Diploma Program in Hostel Management

Mangaluru, Oct 1: In a first of its kind initiative, city-based Vikas Group of Institutions has planned to introduce a one year Diploma Program in Hostel Management.

According former minister Krishna J Palemar, who is the chairman of the Vikas group, presently, there are no other diploma or certificate programmes for hostel wardens anywhere in the world and Vikas is the first institution in the world to offer such a programme.

Speaking to media persons here on Monday, Mr Palemar said: While planning to offer this course, Vikas Group has kept in mind the fact that those appointed as wardens in hostels have until now never undergone any training in hostel management as well as the ways to deal with students who are away from their homes and face teenage issues including depression, fear of failures etc.

The move has also come in the backdrop of an alarming trend in the number of suicides among youngsters and the problem of drug abuse, social media addiction as well as an addiction of viewing sexually explicit contents online.

The one year diploma programme in hostel management including internship will have compulsory as well as optional subjects wherein candidates will be trained in management of hostels for boys and girls at post graduate, undergraduate and primary school levels.

Vikas Group recommends the government to create unique IDs for wardens in order to facilitate job opening and transfers and also to create a warden database of the state/country. The overall objective is the holistic development of wardens and also to help in creation jobs as part of Skill India initiative.

The Vikas Group also plans to hold regular orientation camps to improve the overall efficiency of wardens and will host Conclave of wardens at state and national level.

“We further appeals to the Karnataka governor Vajubhai Vala, chief minister H D Kumaraswamy as well as the education minister to take the initiative in introducing such diploma programme in every district of the state. Vikas also plans to offer training to the trainers to conduct this diploma programme in other parts of the state and country,” he said.

Dr Ananth Prabhu G, Director, Vikas Edu Solutions, Dr Shivakumar Magada, Professor of Aquatic Biology, College of Fisheries Mangaluru were also present.