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- Ties up with- Department of Social Welfare (DSW), Karnataka Vocational Training & Skill Development Corporation Ltd. (KVTSD) and Department of Employment and Training (DET) -under Government of Karnataka, to accelerate skill development for youth in the State
Shimoga, Karnataka, October 3, 2009: NIIT today announced a partnership with Government of Karnataka (Department of Social Welfare (DSW), Karnataka Vocational Training & Skill Development Corporation Ltd. (KVSTDC) & Department of Employment and Training (DET)) to provide eLearning to young under-graduates residing in the hostels of the Department of Social Welfare. Under this unique agreement NIIT, leading Global Talent Development Corporation and Asia’s No.1 IT Trainer, will setup E-learning labs to the hostel inmates, thus enabling skill development of the youth at the doorstep of the Government Hostels.
NIIT will be offering a large catalogue of E-Learning packages on categories including Soft Skills and Basic IT Skills, Sales Courses, Customer Service Courses, Desk Top Publishing Courses, Computer Networking Courses and Web Designing Courses. With this partnership NIIT E-Learning packages could be accessible to youth residing in over 300 hostels in a phased manner as targeted by DSW, KVSTDC & DET for this year.
DSW’s vision of implementing welfare schemes for people of Karnataka, especially youth and KVSTDC’s objective of skill enhancement of all under graduates & graduates compliments NIIT’s vision of making technology easy and accessible to everybody. Backed by NIIT’s best in class course content the training solution promises to offers youth with complete set of skills required by them to build a successful career.
Mr Ashish Basu, President, New Business Incubation, NIIT Ltd, said, “Skill development through eLearning will become a significant growth driver in the future. At NIIT we help our users achieve their full potential through customized e-Learning tools with direct internet interface. We look forward to our tie up with Government of Karnataka to facilitate easy adoption of skills required towards meeting the needs of the youth.”
The vision of this project is to enable the students in the Government hostels to use their free time to enhance their skill sets by acquiring some of the soft skills and life skills that are required in most job areas, and in the process providing the latest learning technologies at the student’s door-step. As a result of their enhanced skill level increase the employability of the students and make them market ready to compete for employment opportunities. Additionally, students will get an opportunity to complete a primer course on some of the MES modules across skills. The primer courses will help a student develop their interest in the skill area. This Vision will be achieved by the Synergy of DSW, KVT&SDC & NIIT expertise.
The other objectives outlined under this partnership include optimizing use of Government infrastructure (Hostels), providing training/technology at the students doorstep, hence minimizing overheads such as commute time, providing ease of accessibility to latest learning technology, providing learning infrastructure 24 X7, providing self paced learning to help the students learn at ease and their convenience, exposing students to a knowledge base beyond the academic one, making students market ready to compete with their counterparts in private colleges and providing a certification by KVT&SDC post completion of training.
The program will be delivered via technology in a self-study mode. Students will be given a window of approximately 12 weeks to complete the program. The self study will be enabled via eLearning modules that are locally installed and tracked via a Learning Management System.
About Department of Social Welfare (DSW)
The Department of Social Welfare, Government of Karnataka is the apex body for facilitating and implementing the various schemes for the welfare of Karnataka people, specially the youth and improvising and empowering them with various technical and other employable skills.
About Karnataka Vocational Training & Skill Development Corporation (KVT& SDC)
KVT&SDC, focuses on skill enhancement of all under-graduates & Graduates, youths across Karnataka. They take training and technology to students’ door-step to bridge the skill gap and make the private and public corporate look at these youths for their job requirements. The ultimate goal for KVT&SDC is to make campus recruitments happen at Government hostels and colleges.
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