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NIIT to set up 15 more computer training centres in China
Tuesday, 01 July 2003, 19:30 IST
NEW DELHI: NIIT, one of India's leading computer training and software development companies, Monday announced it would set up 15 more training centres in China.
The decision comes close on the heels of the recent visit by senior company officials to China as part of the high-level Indian business delegation that accompanied Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee there.
The business delegation included a large number of representatives from Indian IT companies who expressed the desire to scale up or establish operations in China.
NIIT currently manages 100 computer training centres in 25 provinces in China.
Through the additional 15 centres, NIIT will train top managements, project managers, software engineers and IT users employed with IT companies in 15 provinces in China, said a NIIT statement Monday.
In addition, NIIT will also train software professionals of Indian IT companies operating in China, the statement added.
"The IT industry in China expects a lot from NIIT and the software sector in China will benefit the most from this initiative," said Prakash Menon, general manager of NIIT's Chinese business.
NIIT chief operating officer P. Rajendran said the software and services industry in China had set an ambitious target to propel the current $1.5 billion exports to $5 billion by 2005.
To meet this goal China, will need to step up the number of IT professionals from 590,000 to 800,000 by 2005.
"Our unique and synergistic business model, with software and training business complementing each other, gives us an incredible advantage to offer a comprehensive high end training to software professionals," said Rajendran.
He said NIIT's five-year experience in China has given it crucial inputs and brand equity to offer products customised to the specific needs of the country.
NIIT has been working in China in partnership with local companies, over 10 universities and three software technology parks.
Rajendran said the exploding domestic market, rising wage rate differentials, favourable regulations and government support, rising quality of talent and growing Japanese outsourcing to China would act as growth drivers for China's IT services industry.
Source: IANS
Source: IANS