HR Development in IT sector

Since 2002-03 there has been a steady growth in the seating capacity of Engineering / MCA / Polytechnic institutes in the State. For this purpose Government has been pro active in promoting self-financing technical Institutes in the State. To improve the quality of Technical Education State Govt. has set up a Technical University in the State in Sept. 2007. This will help in stream-lining the admission, academic activities as well as examination of Technical Institutions in the State. In order to improve the quality of technical man-power State has launched an innovative programme viz. “College to Career” in collaboration with IT industry in the State. During 2006-07 about 6000 students have benefited from this project. This project aims at providing knowledge of latest Software programming tools such as .net and JAVA. M/s. Microsoft and M/s. TCS are partnering with State Govt. in conducting this programme which is a bybrid of e-learning and satellite communication technology. During August, 2007 a job fair was organized for students who have participated in this programme. More than 20 IT companies including companies such as TCS, WIPRO, PCS have participated in this job fair.

In order to improve the spoken English ability of the youth in the State, GoG has set up a “Society for Creation of Opportunities through Proficiency in English” (SCOPE). This project has been made operational since July, 2007. Cambridge ESOP will be the certifying agency for this programme.

Each year more than 200,000 youths graduate in various disciplines from different Universities in the State. Majority of these graduates belong to Commerce discipline. State Government has recently launched NASSCOM Assessment of Competence (NAC) test for graduates so as to make certified man-power readily available for BPO sector in the State. State Govt. proposes to dovetail NAC to the aforesaid SCOPE programme so that certified manpower for BPO sector would be readily available.

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