The Hindu Business Line : Digiterati to expand training institutes

Digiterati, a Chennai-based IT training institute, will open franchisee centres in Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram by December. Each centre will occupy about 1,800 sq ft and the total investment by franchisees would be around Rs 80 lakh, according to the Digiterati's Director, Mr Ravikumar Parthasarathy.

Digiterati provides certified courses and focuses on corporate training. Wipro, Satyam, Infosys and Cognizant are its customers. The company has trained 35,000 professionals since its inception and trains around 2,500 people every year. The IT corporate training market is likely to be Rs 600 crore by 2011 from the present Rs 210 crore, he said.

Most Indian IT companies invest about 20 per cent of their revenue in IT training and this is bound to increase. Of the 30 lakh graduates passing out of colleges every year, only 5 per cent are employable. This suggests a mismatch between curriculum and industry needs, he said.

According to Mr Parthasarathy, India must move from being a software service provider to becoming a full-fledged product provider. "Over the last six years, we have barely produced any software package barring Tally," he said.

Most of IT work done in India involves writing software program codes. But with automated coding (where one will need to give only inputs and the code will be automatically generated), 70 per cent of IT jobs will be lost, said Mr Parthasarathy. "Our people must be globally employable and for this we need to have diversified skills. Globally there is a shortage of 13 lakh Java professionals," he said.

"Potentially our largest market is China, followed by Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea," he said.

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