The Hindu Business Line : NIIT opens Community Learning Centre in Delhi

“Initiatives like these will go a long way in enabling youths in urban slums integration into the mainstream and thus contribute to an overall growth of the society.”

Ms Sheila Dikshit

Our Bureau

New Delhi, Aug 29 In its bid to bridge the education-employability gap and harness the latent talent pool in urban slums, The NIIT Institute (TNI) - a not-for-profit society by NIIT promoters – has set up of the first-of-its-kind ‘Community Learning Centre’ in Delhi.

The Delhi Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit, inaugurated the first NIIT Community Learning Centre (CLC), set up in association with NGO ABHAS, at the Tughlakabad village here today.

The NIIT CLC would provide relevant skills to the unemployed youth in urban slums for making them employable in sectors such as retail, automobile sales, telecommunications, hospitality, and healthcare amongst others.

“Initiatives like these will go a long way in enabling their integration into the mainstream and thus contribute to an overall growth of the society,” Ms Dikshit said.

CLC would provide the youth with model educational, training and employment services, thus leading to career-progressive jobs. This would be accomplished through NIIT’s partnership with the industry, business, labour, education and workforce development boards, the government, the communities and the NGOs.

Course Duration

The NIIT CLC would offer training programmes of three months to one year duration for 10th and 12th pass students, residing in urban slums and semi-rural areas. NIIT plans to set up 20 CLCs in the next three years, in close proximity to slums.

Commenting on the initiative, Mr Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman of NIIT, said, “The CLC is another NIIT initiative to create employment for the youth in urban slums.”

NIIT CLC would offer training programmes in the areas of basic English communication; grooming & etiquette; basic computer and operating system skills; knowledge of industry sector; and industry specific skills such as customer handling in retail. NIIT would work closely with the industry to customise training programmes according to the job requirements.

More Stories on : IT Training | Tamil Nadu

Article E-Mail :: Comment :: Syndication :: Printer Friendly Page

Stories in this Section
IT firms see something to cheer in Obama speech

Shyam gets CDMA spectrum

Number portability: DoT not for fee on subscribers

Tata Indicom cuts prepaid tariffs

Obama’s anti-outsourcing rhetoric puts IT industry in wait-and-watch mode

New California Soft facility

NIIT opens Community Learning Centre in Delhi

‘Expat assignments: Challenges galore for cos of Indian origin’

Satyam pursuing four acquisition opportunities

Valgen’s ERP tool for SMEs

TRAI free to enforce quality of service: Tribunal

IT services market to hit $8 b in 2011: Study