The Hindu Business Line : `TCS keen to invest more in Coimbatore'

The visit of the three bigwigs of Tata Consultancy Services - Mr S. Ramadorai, Managing Director and CEO, Mr S. Padmanabhan, Executive Vice-President and Head (Global Human Resources), and Mr N. Chandrasekharan, Executive Vice-President and Head (Global Sales), though brief, reaffirmed their seriousness about investing in the city's educational prowess.

Coimbatore is not new to TCS. It has established strategic relations with 12 colleges in this area, set up a TCS-PSG Centre of Excellence for software engineering, established an English language lab at the Bannari Institute of Technology, a German language chair at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam and is now in the process of establishing an offshore development centre here. Mr Ramadorai observed that this area was emerging as a key catchment area for the company. "We have made over 1,215 offers for the next year, a 67-per cent increase in the number of offers over the last," he said.

Mr Padmanabhan said this was the first time that all three of them managed to take time off to visit a non-metro town"This engineering manufacturing hub holds a lot more potential than what meets the eye ," he saidStating that students considered TCS a `dream employer' Mr Ramadorai said: "For us, recruitment, training and deployment is core to our well-being. It is sustained and we will continue to enhance it."

The company has instituted the `Sangam Package' to reward the `best student and best student project award' in five colleges in Coimbatore.

Mr Padmanabhan said the company was also looking at talent from the non-engineering streams.

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