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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Apr 17 2016 | 1:42 PM IST
Skills and talent development firm NIIT aims to train about 20,000 students this year on future technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and virtual reality (VR) to meet the changing skill set requirement of various industries.
The company will launch the new courses from next month to be offered from its centres and later extend them to engineering colleges later.
"We have been a global leader in skills and talent development. Once again, we want to revolutionise the landscape by introducing these pioneering programmes. Looking at the digital transformation across industry verticals, we want to create a talent pool that is equipped with skill sets required," NIIT President (Global Skills and Careers Group) Prakash Menon told PTI.
These programmes will cover Java Stack, Mean Stack, Big Data and Data Sciences Stack, Cloud Stack, IoT Stack, robotics and VR, he added.
"India, with a strong technology ecosystem of MNC R&D centres, service providers, IT global in-house centres and startups, is well placed to play key role in the digital era ...Our aim is to train about 20,000 people in the first year," he said.
NIIT will roll out 12-14 week courses from 150 centres and later expand them to other centres and engineering colleges as well. The fees starts at about Rs 25,000.

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"The focus of the courses is building products rather than software. The students will be required to work on two projects for the course," Menon said.
According to industry reports, India is home to digitally ready talent pool of five lakh engineers suitable to execute digital transformation projects.
This is expected to increase to over a million engineers trained in digital transformation technologies by 2020.
The 1-year management program focuses on practical ways to
learn from case studies, corporate examples, general discussions, statistical software and online database resources. The program will be delivered using Synchronous Learning Technology platform at NIIT Imperia Centre. In addition to this, students need to attend a mandatory 3-day campus module at the beginning of the program and a second 4-day campus module during the advance stage of program at IIM Calcutta. Students can also avail up to 90% of the program fee as Customized Education Loan from leading banks.
SMP is the only long term management program in India exclusively designed for senior and middle level managers to help them develop as future leaders. The program is a perfect mix of experience sharing, real life case discussions, assignments and industry/research based projects besides the lectures in class.
For more information:
First, we are delighted to have Barry Libert as a Digital
board Advisor, whose valuable advice will help us build and execute a digital transformation roadmap for companies in India, China and Emerging Markets and our own company; and second, we are going to leverage the training materials developed for Wharton and HBR in the India, China and Emerging Markets".
Speaking on his appointment as a Digital Transformation Advisor to the NIIT Board, Barry Libert said, "This is indeed an exciting role that will allow us to offer our insights and advice to NIIT in order to partner with NIIT to help leaders throughout India, China and Emerging Markets drive their digital transformation agenda starting with leadership transformation and ending with more valuable business models."
According to the MIT Centre for Digital Business, 77% of organizations consider missing digital skills as the key hurdle to their transformation strategy. Therefore, Indian & Global IT Companies are investing heavily in building digital transformation skills to enable their clients transform digitally.
About NIIT
The purpose has no meaning unless it meets its end.
Therefore, to gauge the impact of our scholarships on student's lives, we have Scholar Tracking System which enables scholarship funders to connect and monitor the growth of all their scholars over a period of 3 to 5 years. Every student's online profile is interconnected with funder's dashboard. They can interact via online chat box, SMS/Emails and live mentoring video sessions.
About NIIT
NIIT is a leading Skills and Talent Development
Corporation that is building a manpower pool for global industry requirements. The company, which was set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, today ranks among the world's leading training companies owing to its vast and comprehensive array of talent development programs. With a footprint across 40 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Enterprises and Institutions. NIIT has three main lines of business across the globe - Corporate Learning Group, Skills and Careers Group, and School Learning Group.
NIIT's Corporate Learning Group (CLG) offers Managed Training Services (MTS) to market-leading companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. The Skills and Careers Group (SNC) delivers a diverse range of learning and talent development programs to millions of individual and corporate learners in areas including Digital Transformation, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Soft Skills, Business Process Excellence, Retail Sales Enablement, Management Education, Multi- Sectoral Vocational Skills, Digital Media Marketing, and new-age IT.
As the Most Trusted Training Brand in India for 4th year
in a row (Brand Trust Report, 2016), NIIT's learning and talent development solutions, continue to receive widespread recognition globally. NIIT has been named among the Top 20 Training Outsourcing Companies for the past nine consecutive years by Training Industry, Inc. USA. Further, leading Indian ICT journal Dataquest has conferred upon NIIT the 'Top Training Company' award successively for the past 20 years, since the inception of this category. NIIT has also been featured as the 'Most Respected Education Company'- 2016 by leading financial magazine, Business World. NIIT.Tv - a disruptive innovation by NIIT, won the prestigious award for 'Educational Technology, at the Indo-American Education Summit 2016.
Media Contact Details
Prateek Chatterjee, Sr Vice President, Corporate Communications & Marketing, NIIT Limited, +91- 9910201085, +91 (124) 4293370,prateek.Chatterjee@niit.Com Swati Sharma, Corporate Communications & Marketing, NIIT Limited, +91-9999601154, +91 (124) 4293042, swati.1.Sharma@niit.Com Sumana Bhattacharya, Candour Communications, +91-9810597176, sumana@candour.Co.In Puja Shalini, Candour Communications, +91-9654850909, puja@candour.Co.

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