NIIT to provide training to 20 thousand students on modern technologies
India: Technology ecosystem is witnessing
innovation and emergence of new technologies across the world. To cater to the
future requirements, NIIT, a technology skill and development organization aims
to provide training to 20 thousand students this year.
The
organization has planned to launch these new courses on modern technologies
from next month across its 150 centers and same will be implemented later in
the engineering colleges. These courses would cover Big Data, Internet of
Things, robotics, Virtual reality, Java Stack, Cloud, and so on.
The
average course duration is 12-14 weeks and course fee starts from INR 25,000.
TechSci
Research depicts that with the growing demand of high quality talent on modern
technologies, growing technology start-ups, booming cloud, IoT, virtual reality
market, and so on; companies such as NIIT are taking initiatives for inclusive
growth of the ecosystem. It is projected that in India more than 500K trained
engineers in modern technology would be required for the successful implementation
of digital transformation projects.
TechSci Research, a market research and consulting firm has
recently published report, “India Internet of Things (IoT) Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2020”.
According to the report, IoT market in India is projected to grow at a CAGR
over 28% during 2015- 2020. IoT is being rapidly brought into use across
diverse industry verticals to reduce operational and manpower costs, and
increase operational efficiency. Consumer electronics, automotive &
transportation, BFSI, home & building, energy & utilities, retail,
supply chain & logistic sectors, and manufacturing are the key emerging
application areas where IoT technology is majorly being adopted. With growing
need for connectivity among devices, systems and services using variety of
protocols and domains; automating business processes; and real-time monitoring
& tracking of services and systems, Internet of Things (IoT) technology has
been gaining increasing market traction over the last few years.