Mindtree ties up with educational institutions for government projects

Hubli: Mindtree plans to tie up with educational institutions since the company is expecting 10 more projects regarding the India's Unique Identification (UID) for which they provided the application services. The company also wants to concentrate more on public centric and government oriented projects.

Speaking about public centric projects, Subroto Bagchi, Vice-Chairman and Gardener, Mindtree, said that all these years Indian IT companies built digital infrastructure for foreign companies and assisted many governments, but now they have an opportunity to use the in-house skills to build a similar infrastructure for their country.

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"Now we are getting chance to build a similar infrastructure in our country. Here, MindTree plans to rope in educational institutions which will be outcome-based approach - traditional means of education with professional approach," said Mr Bagchi.

Explaining how MindTree plans to engage with educational institutions, Bagchi said, "It is a long term process, where both the company and educational institutions sit together and develop course materials or train students depending on the requirement of the sector."

"At present, the requirements are driven by selfish manner. We do not want to follow this, but we want to follow a 'give and take' ideology and make a difference by guiding both the students and the educational institutions," he added.

The company has begun the process and is talks with leading educational institutions like KLE Society and GIT in Karnataka.