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Bhubaneswar, July 25: Indian multinational NIIT has announced plans to open more centres in the state. The company said Puri and Berhampur are on its radar and it is likely to open centres there soon. According to Sapnesh Lalla, the CEO of NIIT, his company was looking at “footprint expansion” in the state. “At all our centres and eight to ten top engineering in the state we plan to introduce our next generation digital transformation programme,” he said. NIIT currently has six centres in the state.
Lalla also unveiled the company’s plans to introduce its globally acclaimed, proprietary NIIT Inside Campus (NIC) model in universities and colleges across India through strategic tie-ups with premier institutions.
The new programmes will train learners in MEAN Stack, big data and data sciences stack, design thinking, cloud stack, Internet of Things (IoT) Stack, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Robotics and Virtual Reality and Cybersecurity.
“These programmes will be embedded in the college curriculum which would give students an opportunity to acquire skills aligned to the fast-evolving digital economy. NIC has already been introduced in select colleges in India,” he said, and added that the requirements of the industry had changed with time and it now needs professionals to be productive from day one rather than spending resources on training them. “Universities provide a foundation to students but NIIT skills them to be productive from day one at jobs.”
Lalla said engineering students need to skill themselves in JAVA, which had become industry standard and helps generate business. According to him, the Digital Transformation programmes NIIT has developed under its DigiNxt series can help create an IT workforce aligned with the needs of the digital economy.
“We train 1,200 engineers every year in the state and hope to see all of them become productive, as trained IT professionals are teaching them and the syllabus is framed with industry requirements in mind,” Lalla said.
