L&T Infotech has won a prestigious e-governance implementation project from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), an institution affiliated to the Union Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
L&T Infotech, with its technology prowess and project management experience, is enabling AICTE provide efficient and effective services to all its stakeholders and to bring in transparency, accountability and speed in its engagement with its member institutions and prospective member institutions in order to create a robust, healthy and vibrant educational infrastructure in the country. It is also enabling AICTE stakeholders to gain visibility into the governance process and report status through periodic updates; to enhance productivity and standardization by automating various approval and accreditation processes and work flows across bureaus and regional offices; and to enable accurate MIS as well as ad hoc reporting and effective decision making by creating a comprehensive database of colleges, trustees, staff, faculties and students.
Under this project, L&T Infotech will implement Siebel CRM (Customer Relationship Management) modules and will also supply and execute a comprehensive System Integration (SI) network including supply of the requisite hardware for PCs and networking equipment for their office in Delhi and 15 regional offices across the country. This project also includes a 4-year support of the applications and hardware. L&T Infotech will be integrating payment gateways and biometric features in the e-governance solution.
The first phase of this project, which was inaugurated by the Union Minister of HRD, Mr. Kapil Sibal, in New Delhi on January 07, 2010, has been completed in a record time of six weeks.
This e-governance project is expected to open doors for several critical projects in the education space going forward since AICTE has 20,000 institutions under its banner and thus holds tremendous potential.
“Implementing this project will help AICTE to improve the quality of education at a much faster pace. It will provide instantaneous information and status to all stakeholders on the criteria for accreditation of an Institution. It will also facilitate the process of making an online application for various approvals easier and thus will be more user-friendly. During the next phase of this project, students would also be able to have a single window to genuine national academic institutions, thereby replacing the current multi-directional process. We would like to appreciate the effort put in by L&T Infotech in implementing this project successfully in a record time,” said Dr. S.S. Mantha, Acting Chairman, AICTE.
About L&T Infotech
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (L&T Infotech), one of the fastest growing IT Services companies, is ranked No. 5 globally among the Best IT Services Providers by Global Media Services in 2009, ranked 11th by NASSCOM among the top software and services exporters from India and also ranked among the ‘Leaders’ category in the prestigious Global 100 list released by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). The same survey has also featured L&T Infotech in a few prestigious sub-categories:
a) Among 10 companies by Industry Focus in the Oil & Natural Gas sector;
b) Among the best 20 leaders by Industry Focus in the Discrete Manufacturing sector;
c) Among the best 20 leaders by Services offered in the Information/Communications sector;
d) Among the best 5 leaders by region in the Middle East; and
e) As a New Winner in 2009;
A wholly-owned subsidiary of USD 8.5 billion Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest technology-driven engineering organization, L&T Infotech is differentiated by the unique Business-to-IT Connect, which is a result of our rich corporate heritage.
We offer comprehensive, end-to-end software solutions and services in the following industry verticals: Banking & Financial Services; Insurance; Energy & Petrochemicals; Manufacturing; and Product Engineering Services (Telecom). We also deliver business solutions to our clients in the following Service Lines: SAP, Oracle, Infrastructure Management Services, Testing and Consulting. Our other Service offerings are: Business Analytics, Legacy Modernization, Applications Outsourcing, Architecture Consulting, PLM, Service Oriented Architecture, end-to-end integrated engineering services and embedded system solutions.
We have been ranked No. 1 in the Black Book of Outsourcing in Engineering Services Outsourcing in 2009; and have also won the Deloitte Fast 500 Asia Pacific Award for 2008 for the second consecutive year. We stand further committed to our vision to provide world-class service to clients in our areas of focus, offering solutions that are based on business and technology insights.
About AICTE
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was set-up in November 1945 as a national level Apex Advisory Body to conduct survey on the facilities on technical education and to promote development in the country in a coordinated and integrated manner. As stipulated in the National Policy of Education (1986), AICTE is vested with statutory authority for planning, formulation and maintenance of norms and standards, quality assurance through accreditation, funding in priority areas, monitoring and evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards and ensuring coordinated and integrated development and management of technical education in the country.
The purview of AICTE (the Council) covers programs of technical education including training and research in Engineering, Technology, Architecture, Town Planning, Management, Pharmacy, Applied Arts and Crafts, Hotel Management and Catering Technology etc. at different levels.
