PTI| Bengaluru | India
IBM and NASSCOM Foundation on Tuesday announced the culmination of the first year of the
New-collar Employability Skills Programme under which more than 2,500 students completed this IBM-certified course on
emerging technologies of data science and cloud computing. These students are from 23 colleges across Karnataka,
National Capital Region and Haryana, a joint statement said. This Corporate Social Responsibility intervention by IBM
engaged students through an on-campus approach in a 204 hour- long blended training model that uses online and face-face
training immersions to build skills in data science and cloud computing, it said.
Students from 23 Tier-2 and Tier-3 non-technical institutions were trained by training partners TMI and
iPrimed, the statement said. Post the training, NASSCOM Foundation, IBM, with the
training partners, had been conducting various placement drives and had already placed 800-plus students from the
programme in organisations like HGS, HCL Technologies and Mphasis, the statement added.
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