The aim of the life-skills programme is to help students become pro-social, independent, proactive and responsible citizens — developing the capabilities that sit alongside technical competence.
Skills we build
Communication skills
Speaking and writing clearly in professional and academic settings.
Time management
Prioritising work and meeting commitments under pressure.
Critical thinking
Evaluating evidence and reasoning through unfamiliar problems.
Leadership
Taking responsibility for a team and its outcomes.
Active listening
Understanding before responding — in interviews, teams and client work.
Dealing with failure
Recovering from setbacks and treating them as information rather than defeat.
Speakers who have addressed our students
Dr. Ashish Chauhan
Senior Consultant and Diabetologist, on “Success — how to achieve it” (November 2022). Recipient of the Indywood Medical Excellence Award 2016, Vaidya Siromani 2016 and Vaidya Shree 2018.
Dr. Rajitha Mynampally
Life Coach and Philanthropist, on self-independence, confidence and self-identity, and on the pressures facing young people today.
Dr. Babu Rao Kuchipudi
Additional Director General of Police (Retd.), on strategic ways to achievement.
Dr. Chinnababu Sunkavalli
Robotic Oncology Surgeon and Clinical Director, on advanced cancer treatment and robotic surgery.
Justice B. Chandra Kumar
Retired High Court Justice, on “Constructive Development” for final-year B.Tech students (August 2024).
Mrs. Padmini Ivaturi
Assistant Professor and public speaker, on the value of helping a single individual, however large the problem.
Mr. Bhaskara Rao
on Vipassana meditation: quieting the mind, focusing on the present, accepting thoughts and reducing anxiety about past and future.
Mr. GHP Raju, IPS (Retd.)
Additional Director General, on gender sensitisation.
Mr. Namana Mavul Rao
AGM, Chettinad Cements, on the power of perseverance.
Mr. Sampath Samudrala
Founder, GACR Consulting Services, on dynamic ways to success.
a campus awareness seminar on online safety and the 1930 national cybercrime helpline.
Mentoring and life-skills guidance form part of everyday campus life.
Officials from the Cyber Crime Police Station, Malkajgiri Commissionerate, on staying safe from online fraud and the 1930 national cybercrime helpline.