The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Rural students to get a shot at IT jobs

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Friday, Sep 02, 2005

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Rural students to get a shot at IT jobs

Vani Doraisamy

DIFFERENT STROKES: Rural engineers at work. — Photo: K. Pichumani

CHENNAI: Rural students may no longer have to fret while their urban counterparts walk away with plum jobs in campus recruitment drives.

If Jeppiar, chairperson of the Jeppiar Educational Trust is to be believed, the rural-urban divide will be bridged with his start-up venture, Jeppiar Technologies, which promises skill-based IT jobs to students who pass out of private engineering institutions in the hinterlands not covered by IT majors' recruitment drives.

The first such centre was launched on the Sathyabama Deemed University campus near here on Thursday.

Mostly aimed at students from colleges that come under the Consortium of Self-financing Arts, Science and Professional Colleges, which Mr. Jeppiar presides over, the new company will develop software-related products in Internet technologies, databases and application development domains for various industries.

The company's website www.jeppiartech.com was also launched. Some of the products under development include software for timetable automation, library management systems and skill set databases.

The company will mostly induct students who had been left out of other recruitment drives, Mr. Jeppiar said. The Consortium will first talk to IT majors about district-wise recruitment drives. It will then depute trained teachers to its colleges to coach students in soft skills and communication development.

Two such training programmes will be held at Tirunelveli and Nagercoil on September 13 and continue till January. The Consortium itself will then recruit those who left out of these recruitment drives. Several IT majors have evinced interest in the training/placement programme and the Consortium will not charge a fee from the students or colleges, Mr. Jeppiar said.

Students from all academic streams will be given placement. One of the first clients of the new firm, T. Ignatius, director-operations, MTL Instrument Pvt. Ltd, said they had placed an order for a product data management system.

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