| According to a release, Venkatesan was accompanied by a four-member team which included Rohit Shipstone, national sales manager-public sector, Aruna Ramanathan, lead programme manager, education programmes, Vipin Chandran, accounts manager, public sector and Nandu Pradha, director, public sector. |
| Venkatesan remarked that the teacher training facility at Chennai could help teachers adopt best techniques in imparting IT knowledge and practice to students in schools. |
| The chief minister in response indicated that this proposal could be taken forward so that IT education is made even more popular in the state's schools. |
| Venkatesan brought to the notice of the chief minister, the efforts undertaken by Microsoft to bring out Tamil language software, which he believed will enable widespread use of PCs. |
| He has also promised the support of Microsoft for the state's e-governance project "" rural access services through the internet (RASI). The chief minister's delegation included Lakshmi Pranesh, chief secretary and N Narayanan, development commissioner and prinicipal secretary. |
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