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Tuesday, Apr 25, 2006

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`Computer education in 10,000 schools more'

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Chief Minister inaugurates new Wipro facility, lays stone for another campus

DRIVING ALONG IT HIGHWAY: Azim Premji, Wipro Chairman, with Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy during the stone-laying ceremony of Wipro's Gopannapally campus near Hyderabad on Monday. — PHOTO: P.V. Sivakumar

HYDERABAD: Encouraged by the rapid strides in the Information Technology sector, the State Government is chalking out plans to introduce computer education in 10,000 zilla parishad and Government high schools.

The Government is also evolving ways to change education curriculum to suit the needs of the industry, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has said.

The Chief Minister was speaking at a meeting after inaugurating the new campus of Wipro Technologies and laying foundation stone for its second campus at Gopanapally here on Monday. The new facility, being developed at an estimated cost of Rs. 100 crores on 100 acres, will have 5,000 employees in the first phase with a capacity to train 1,200. Wipro already employs over 5,000 people in the city.

Dr. Reddy wanted the captains of the industry to help the Government in its efforts to make education tailor-made to suit the needs of the industry.

Wipro Chairman Azim H. Premji announced that the IT major had major expansion plans for Hyderabad while it was keen to operationalise its Visakhapatnam facility "as quickly as possible." The new campus here was self-contained with a capacity of housing more than 3,000 and was built to suit the requirements of global clients.

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