Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Saturday, Feb 19, 2005
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IT Training Industry & Economy - Education Microsoft plans 3 IT academies in Maharashtra Our Bureau
Pune , Feb. 18 MICROSOFT has chosen Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad to kick-start its Partners-in-Learning programme in Maharashtra. Pune and Nagpur would have one centre each and Aurangabad is also tentatively scheduled to have one centre, said Mr Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation India. He was in the city for the inauguration of the first Microsoft IT academy in Maharashtra, by the Chief Minister, Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh. Mr Venkatesan said that the IT academy, which will serve to be a pivotal point for imparting IT training to teachers across the State, was a key deliverable of the MoU signed between the State Government and Microsoft. Mr Venkatesan said the MoU also entails creation of a localised IT curriculum for students, rolling out of teacher and student scholarship programmes and setting up of a teachers' portal. The academy intends to train 20,000 teachers and two lakh students (from class three to class 12) over a period of five years. Microsoft already has in place five such academies - three in Karnataka, and one each in Uttaranchal and Hyderabad. This is part of the Microsoft's global learning programme for which close to Rs 100 crore has been earmarked. A MoU has been signed between Microsoft and the West Bengal Government and the Kolkata IT academy would begin soon. The IT academy set up in the MSCERT campus is an IT lab complete with hardware, software, curriculum and staff for delivery of IT training for schoolteachers. About the Partners-in-Learning programme, Mr Venkatesan said that it included three partnerships. One is the Project Shiksha, a key programme in India under the PIL Grants umbrella, entailing an investment of $20 million. It is geared to reach out to 3.5 million students and 80,000 schoolteachers across the Government schools by 2007.
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