Experience of B.VOC food production from the DTHM, in words of a freshers.

The curriculum is quite related to our field, it teaches us about the history of Indian food but also the practicalities of our field right now. Our head chef is a 25 year experienced teacher named Chef Siddharth. We also have 5-10 year of experience teachers as well. The course in sem 1 was about the related fields but now we're more focused on food production, Bakery management, f&b service and communication skills with side subjects about food safetu and hygiene and event management.

we can get internships related to our field of food production, we can also get an internship in f&b service deptt as well. We can get an assistant chef position or a service man internship. Now after compelting the course we can get Internships on a higher yet relatively low position such as commi chef or Apprentice to a chef de partie. Though we can also go into the other deptt of a hotel as well with our qualification, which is housekeeping or front office.

The placement is pretty decent for this course, usually we get placement at the place we do out INDUSTRY TRAINING at which is in sem 3 and we can give interviews for it and get our desired company as well. Ofcourse the university can only help us so much, they have like 2-3 big options but after that we're on our own. Our higest placement offer will be about 3-5 lachs per annum after that it will start growing the further we climb in this field. Internationally the package would be 7-9 lachs but in india its that low. Usually half the students do get the placement and half the students start doing their own thing after the course ends. Ill get my job experience after this course and will start building my own bakery start up side by side, the short term goal is a bakery product start up and the long term goal is owning a cafe/restaurant and running it

about 49k per semester so that's 1 lachs for 2 sem and you can add it up. It increased a little bit by 150-ish this semester and im in the 2nd sem so let's see what happens. There's sports centre fee, medical fee, lab fee, lab maintenance fee. About the same for my batchmates, just a lil less by like 500-ish if they're from a reserved category. We got no scholarships neither an opportunity for it cause self financed courses don't get any.

There arent many annual festivals, the fine art deptt, the politics deptt, engineering deptt and tourism deptt they usually have more regular courses but usually they don't get enough funding to hold their own fest. The fests are typically held in feb and may and there are many small fests as well which happens at the end of the year which students still love going to. There are millions of books in both of the main libraries of jamia. The technological provisons are limited to having a projector, ofvourse the engineering and btech deptt got more of that but 80% of the college has a projector. Theres a whole sports complex for rhe sports activities, it has all sorts of sports activities cricket, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, tennis etc. There are very few clubs which is real sad cause i expected manu more clubs from a uni like jamia millia islamia- literary club, marketing club, quiz club, debate club, art club.

I didn't apply to any other college and neither did i try to do that, i liked jamia millia islamia and i got into the bba distance course first and this b.voc food production course was going to die but don't know why in the end they decided not to actually end it. The requirements were 45%+ in boards exam and an entrance exam for the course, the cutoff was at 74% before they did the whole drama of ending the course but after they brought it back they made the cut off at 50% at which point whoever was above that mark in entrance exam could get in. The exam was a little easier than the othet entrance exam i gave of the courses from the same deptt. It consisted of general knowledge, maths and English portions

There were 7 teachers for 5 subjects + 2 subjects were taught by the same teacher. Now in sem 2 we have 5 teachers for 4 subjects + 2 subjects are being taught by one teacher. We have stayed 11 students throughout. The teachers are pretty good with good experience but the upper management is harder to deal with. There are usually internals and externals, internals are practicals and mid sem theory exams, they're either of 25 or 50 marks depending on the subject. Then there's end sem external exams which are of 50 or 75 marks which are taken by external invigilators. Depends on how much you study really, most of it is pretty easy. 2 students got back in our 1st sem end sem exams. Course curriculum is quite relevant to our field, we're learning about the main subject- Food Production and also its surrounding subjects.

I did have a private interview actually and from the discussion i had with my fellow interviewees there was really no pattern to it. It was mostly based on interest, our high school subject and our % of the board exams. I personally faced a difficult interview because i did the boards from NIOS which is a private/open board and is for people who couldn't or didnt attend regular school. I was told that since you didn't attend regular school they felt like i couldnt handle the course but well i did the course and i got a sgpa of 9.57 in the first sem.

Hostel students are safe to hang around inside the campus and its usually very full of life witg students as well, the cafeteria areas are where thr main crowd gets gathered around. Students usually travel together to the nearby market as well to eat and record videos and by the 8 pm mark you can start seeing many students out in the market. Locality is not THAT safe to roam around at nifht but its decent. 40 foota road, batla house, zakir nagar are places whete the crowd gets gatherer the most and makes tons of videos at.