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Publish Date : 23-Jan-2013

The NASSCOM Sector Skills Council (SSC) declared that it has entered into a 3-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NIIT for providing improved training programs to students across its training campuses nationwide. The collaboration aims to train over 1 lakh students over three years, starting with 30,000 students in the first year.

According to the company, the MoU will provide first-of-its-kind training programs which have been designed, developed and endorsed by the industry through two initiatives- FSIT (Foundation Skills in IT) - for engineering graduates and Global Business Foundation Skills (GBFS) - for graduates of all streams. While FSIT intends to develop foundation skills in IT, GBFS has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the BPO/KPO and the LPO industry.

NIIT will leverage its on-campus delivery model - NIIT Careers@Campus, designed to enhance employability skill sets of engineering graduates in particular and the overall employability of all graduates in general.

IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council NASSCOM has designed the training program and the achievement levels are certified through the NAC and NAC-Tech assessments.

“India has the world’s largest pool of talent across geographically dispersed locations within the country and outside. Indian IT-BPM industry has been working round the clock to build a favourable environment in preparing this talent pool and making them industry-ready. While diverse efforts and initiatives have been taken by the industry and academia at various levels, there is a lot that can and needs to be done. This initiative of NASSCOM with NIIT is a step-forward in the same direction and is aimed to scale quality capacity of our graduates. We believe our initiative will go a long way in contributing towards achieving the scale that is required by the industry,” said Mr. Som Mittal, President, NASSCOM.

“NIIT’s training expertise together with NASSCOM’s industry insights will empower college students across India,” said Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar, Chairman, NIIT.

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