EMC, DTE, Government of Tamil Nadu and ICTACT have announced that they will be training teachers from over 350 polytechnics in Tamil Nadu on the newly introduced Information storage management courses in Polytechnic institutes. The syllabus for Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Networking Engineering and Information Technology sees an inclusion of the new courses under the L Scheme Syllabus for Government, Government Aided and Self-financing polytechnic colleges.
Thiru. Kumar Jayant, IAS, Commissioner, Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Tamil Nadu, said, “With over 1,000 engineering and Polytechnic colleges and over four lakh engineering and polytechnic students, the state of Tamil Nadu is contributing towards creating ICT workforce in a big way. This initiative is a step further towards bridging the skill gap and providing a competitive edge to ICT students in Tamil Nadu.”
Krishna Kant, Head, EMC Academic Alliance – South Asia & Russia, said, “The Digital Universe in India is expected to grow from 127 Exabytes to 2.9 Zettabytes from 2012 to 2020, doubling every two years, owing to the new trends of social, mobile, cloud and analytics. Due to this digital information explosion, storage, management and protection of data become extremely important. The new courses will help students to build the foundation skills needed for efficient information storage management.”
The faculty training will be completed over a period of two months and is expected to benefit around 20,000 students in 480+ Polytechnic colleges in the state. EMC will provide the technical expertise for the training and the training programme will be implemented at zero cost by EMC, ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu and DOTE, Government of Tamil Nadu. The aim of this initiative is to impart quality ICT education to students, make them industry-ready and help them compete effectively in a challenging global ICT environment.
