Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today inaugurated the new training centre of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) at IIT-Guwahati campus here.
Making no speech at the venue, Singh unveiled a plaque to mark the occasion and took a tour of the training facility.
TCS CEO and managing director S Ramadorai said the new centre will conduct the company's initial learning progranmme for fresh engineering graduates and provide world-class training and research facilities.
"The students will be taken to different TCS projects," he said.
TCS, the leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organisation, was the first Indian IT company to invest in the Northeast, Ramadorai said.
Company's vice-president and head of global human resource division Ajoy Mukherjee said about 300 students have already been trained at the TCS Guwahati centre since March 2008.
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"This initiative will help link talent from the Northeast to the fast-growing Indian IT industry," he said.
The trainees at the new centre will have access to all facilities at the IIT campus including class rooms, library, sports and recreational facilities.
TCS manages e-governance projects in the state, including digitisation of the Assam Treasury and Assam Public Works department to enhance transparency and efficiency in their functioning.
A part of the country's largest industrial conglomerate Tata Group, TCS has over 116,000 of world's IT consultants in 50 countries and generated consolidated revenues of 5.7 billion dollars for fiscal year ended March 31.