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Business Process Outsourcing set to hit the tier-II city

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Bharathidasan University campus at Khajamalai will be a hub during night hours

INFORMATION TECHNLOLOGY: The Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University, C. Thangamuthu, presenting a certificate to a youth in recognition of the latter's completion of a course offered by the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development i n Tiruchi on Friday. — Photo: M. Moorthy.

TIRUCHI: At long last, Bharathidasan University is set to initiate Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), the country's premier Information Technology Enabled Service (ITES) activity, in Tiruchi (a tier-two city).

The university's city campus at Khajamalai will be a BPO hub during night hours. The utility of over 100 terminals at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD), Bharathidasan University Technology Park (BUTP), and the Directorate of Distance Education (DDE) in the campus will be optimised for the purpose.

The IECD Director, K. Parthasarathy, has firmed up an understanding with a BPO company to launch the services, creating an opportunity for students to earn while they learn. Students could take up job work on a piece rate basis, at timings that suit them and gain hands-on experience, the Vice-Chancellor, C. Thangamuthu, informed on Friday. The activity will most likely commence from June-July, he said, presiding over the `Passing Out Ceremony' of IECD students of certificate courses.

On the event, he said students could realise the cumulative benefits of diploma and certificate courses they undergo taking advantage of the university's readiness to integrate the credits (based on instructional hours) they obtain into a fresh degree in the relevant subject. Any shortage could be recompensed through enrolment in courses offered by the DDE.

He also expressed the readiness of IECD to offer technical consultancy to entrepreneurs in need of expert guidance, as also fund viable projects for beneficiaries of the certificate/diploma programmes.

The courses, he explained, were offered at nominal costs that were only one-third of the market rate.

The former Vice-Principal of St. Joseph's College, G. Balasubramanian, said the IECD acted as a catalyst in transforming knowledge-based education into a skill-based one.

He wanted entrepreneurship to become a movement.

Dr. Parthasarathy said the University was the first in the State to offer certificate courses for school dropouts, and infusing an entrepreneurial instinct into them.

The courses, offered since the start of IECD a year ago, were of immense utility to the economically downtrodden section.

A total number of 245 students who had completed courses in DTP, Basic Computer Operations, key board, guitar, drums, Effective Communication Skills in English, and Tally 7.2 received their certificates from the Vice-Chancellor.

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