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IGNOU to establish six BPO training centres

MADURAI: Six BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) training centres will be established by the Indira Gandhi National Open University.

The centres are coming up in Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchi and Puducherry, as per a communication sent to regional centres.

Varsity officials told The Hindu here on Tuesday that a meeting would be convened in New Delhi on January 5 to decide on the modalities of setting up the BPO training centres. Collaboration between the university and IT consulting and services major Accenture is likely to be worked out for this purpose.

The university has two regional centres in Tamil Nadu — at Madurai and Chennai — and the Regional Directors of these two regions have been asked to take steps for setting up the training centres.

“We will train IT graduates and those candidates who are interested in BPO operations. Imparting students with employable skills is the objective of our university,” M. Shanmugham, IGNOU Regional Director, Madurai Regional Centre, said. The training centres would function under the auspices of School of Vocational Education and Training, IGNOU, which is also set to launch a diploma course in BPO from February 2009.

Dr. Shanmugham said that he, along with the IGNOU Chennai Regional Director K. Panneerselvam, would represent the State at the national level meeting being held in New Delhi.

“Graduates passing out of colleges would benefit from the BPO training centres. The university administration is of the opinion that immense scope existed (in that particular sector) despite the global economic meltdown and hence the latest initiative was taken,” according to Dr. Panneerselvam.

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