Tata Infotech Education's plans

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, OCT. 10. Tata Infotech Education plans to increase its training centres to 400 by March 2002 and the share of income from the education division to 8-10 per cent of Tata Infotech's turnover, as against 6 per cent share last year (out of Rs. 525 crore turnover), according to Mr. Rahul Thapan, Head, Education Services Division.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, he said the training centres had gone up from 200 to 300 already this year.

Tata Infotech Education is the education services division of Tata Infotech. It has now started offering Tata Infotech Certified Networking Engineer Programme (TCNE) at seven centres in Delhi and Hyderabad, which will be extended to Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore by the year end and to Chennai and Kolkata by March 2002.

According to IDC, the network integration marketing in India has grown from Rs. 399 crores to Rs. 512 crores in 2000-01, and is projected at Rs. 617 crores this year. The growth is on account of networks being implemented nationwide. Tata Infotech is also involved in implementing some of these networks including the State-wide networks in Maharashtra, Kerala, and Karnataka for BSNL, to support the national Internet backbone. It proposes to train 500 students in TCNE in the first year and 1,500 next year nationwide, he said.

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