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Varsity signs MoU to offer job-oriented courses

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HELPING STUDENTS: The Bharathidasan University Vice-Chancellor, C. Thangamuthu (left), exchanging the MoU with the Managing Director of Chauhan Knowledge Process Management Limited, Sundeep. Director Manish looks on.

TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the New Delhi-based Chauhan Knowledge Process Management Limited for providing job-oriented courses to integrate candidates with a minimum qualification of Plus Two into Information Technology sector.

The Vice-Chancellor, C. Thangamuthu, exchanged the document with the Managing Director of the company, Sundeep. As per the understanding, the courses would be offered through the university's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD).

The university will create a call centre for offering training in business process outsourcing (BPO) within the campus, along with an in-house placement cell.

The programmes would focus on basic computer skills, communication skills, customer-handling techniques, soft skills and practical sessions to perfect the learners as customer-support executives. The university has taken advantage of the high employee requirement in the BPO sector prompting companies to look for manpower in tier-II cities. Quoting the National Association for Software and Service Companies, the IECD Director, K. Parthasarathy, said that the manpower requirement for the IT sector is estimated at 27 lakh by 2012.

The purpose of the MoU was to bridge the gap between demand and supply of manpower in the industry, create job opportunities for youths, implement employment-based courses on call centre management and BPO management and provide manpower to corporates seeking to establish their units in Tiruchi region, Dr. Parthasarathy said.

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