APPROVALS & AFFILIATIONS
Quest Group along with its subsidiaries has vast experience in the professional education sector and has got associations/ affiliations with the following organizations/entities:
Approved by All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE)
The All India Council for Technical Education is the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
AICTE is responsible for proper planning and coordinated development of the Technical and Management education in India. The AICTE accredits postgraduate and graduate programs under specific categories at Indian institutions as per its charter. For details, log on to www.aicte-india.org Quest Group of Institutions is approved by AICTE to run B.Tech and MBA programs
Affiliated to Inder Kumar Gujral Punjab Technical University(IKGPTU), Jalandhar
IKGPTU was established in 1997 to promote technical, management and pharmaceutical education in Punjab. It was established as Punjab Technical University and renamed as I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University by the State Government in the honour of Late Sh. Inder Kumar Gujral, Former Prime Minister of India, in 2015.
At present, the University has 121 AICTE and 65 UGC institutes affiliated with it and is undertaking and supervising the instructions and award of 30+ bachelor’s degrees in Engineering & Technology & 20+ in non-AICTE & UGC courses. The University has a rich strength of lakhs of students, which also includes 1500+ international students from 30+ countries.
IKGPTU has also bagged the much coveted Best Technical University Award and is ranked amongst top 100 Universities of India by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. For details visit www.ptu.ac.in
Training Partner of National Skill Development Corporation
NSDC acts as a catalyst in skill development by providing funding to enterprises, companies and organizations that provide skill training. Its mandate is to enable a support system which focuses on quality assurance, information systems and training the trainer academies either directly or through Partnerships.
Empanelled Training Partner of PSDM, Govt. of Punjab
Punjab Skill Development Mission has been constituted in line with National Skill Development Policy by the Government of Punjab to enable a large number of youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will improve their theoretical as well as practical knowledge and help them in securing a better livelihood by bringing necessary synergy, oversight and effective coordination. Punjab Skill Development Mission provides free employment linked skill development trainings to the Youth in the age group of 18-35 years across the state under the various state and centrally sponsored schemes. These nationally certified trainings are provided through empanelled training partners at centres in urban and rural areas across the state in over 20 different sectors like Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Green Jobs, Domestic Workers, Retail, Beauty, Construction, Electronics and Hardware, Food Processing, Health Care, IT ITES, Leather, Logistics etc.Punjab Skill Development Mission is bridging the gap between the skilled people required in Industry and the unemployed youth by ensuring that the right candidate with passion for a particular job chooses the right course according to his/her academic background, aptitude and skill-set.
Microsoft Office 365 academic license
The students and faculty get official Microsoft ID to use hundreds of Microsoft products and tools for academic learning which includes Microsoft Teams, MS Outlook, One Note, etc.
Membership of National Digital Library of India
National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources sponsored and mentored by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is built to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is designed to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources.
Institutional Membership of DELNET
Quest Group of Institutions has institutional membership of DELNET. DELNET has been actively engaged with the compilation of various Union Catalogues of the resources available in member-libraries.
It has already created the Union Catalogue of Books,Union List of Current Periodicals, Union Catalogue of Periodicals,CD-ROM Database,Database of Indian Specialists, Database of Periodical Articles, Union List of Video Recordings, Urdu Manuscripts’ Database, Database of Theses and Dissertations, sample databases of language publications using GIST technology and several other databases. The data is being updated in these databases and is growing rapidly. All the DELNET databases have been resident on DELSIS, an in-house software developed on BASISPlus, an RDBMS, the product of Information Dimensions Inc. of USA which has been provided to DELNET courtesy National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.
Institutional Membership of Confederation of Indian Industry
Institutional membership of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) for enhancement of Industry-Academia interface
CICU (Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings) Tie-up
One of the major Industry Institute tie up – Quest has tied up with CICU (Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings) which represents 25 prominent industrial/trade associations. The salient aims and objectives of the Chamber are to promote & protect the general industrial and mercantile interest of the industry and trade, to encourage responsive outlooks and unanimity amongst members of the business community. It has around 850 members representing almost all segments of industry and trade such as auto parts, agricultural apparatuses, cycle and cycle parts, cutting tools, fasteners, foundry, hand tools, hosiery, machine tools, sewing machine, textile etc. Some of the organizations amongst them are Trident, Vardman Industries Ltd., Avon Cycles Ltd., Abhishek Industries Ltd., Aarti Steels Ltd., Eastman Industries Ltd., Freemans Measures Ltd., G.S.Auto International Ltd., Kangaroo Industries Ltd., Ludhiana Beverages Ltd. (Coca Cola), Majestic Auto Ltd., Munjal Casting Ltd., Mangla Cotex Ltd., Ritesh Industries Ltd., Shreyans Industries Ltd.
MIA (Mohali Industry Association) Tie-up
We are a recognized member of Mohali Industries Association, which is an Association that provides the much required link between the industry and the government. Its multi-dimensional activities, consistent dialogue and increasing affinity with various central and state government departments / organizations connected with industry have aided in improving infrastructural facilities in the industrial area. This membership serves as a great assistance in times of our College Placements, Internships, Trainings and Development Programmes.
Industrial Tie-ups - MoUs with Industry
In our Endeavour to act as a bridge between quality job seekers & quality job providers and to enhance the Job Readiness of the students, Quest has signed MOU’s with more than 30 industries & organizations of the region. Some of these Organizations are: Fore Solutions, Unit Nexus, Mindful Systems & Solutions, Jetking, Pingaksho Technologies, Aerotel Technologies, Skydek Solutions, Sharmasons Builders, ACME Alvista, Pioneer Communications, Logiciel Solutions etc. An effective industry- institute relation benefits the industry and the institute by way of sharing knowledge, training needs of the institute, Project guidance & Placement of students and problem solving in the industries through consultations.
