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Need to `move up IT ladder'

Staff Reporter

Students must "enhance their skills in basic engineering disciplines" "Government vision is to occupy 25% of country's IT market"

MADURAI: There is need to move up the ladder in the Information Technology sector by entering into advanced areas such as designing of smaller and compact chips, C. Chandramouli, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, said on Friday. For this purpose, students have to "enhance their skills in basic engineering disciplines."

He was addressing the inaugural session of a two-day "International conference on advanced computing and communication" at the Sethu Institute of Technology (SIT), near here.

He urged graduates to constantly upgrade themselves and to delve deeper into subjects to specialise in them. "What was state-of-the-art technology yesterday has become obsolete today. Such conferences expose students to the latest trends at the international level," he said.

Tamil Nadu was a success story in the field of Information Technology due to high Internet connectivity, made possible by two submarine cables with a capacity of 13 Terabytes and infrastructure such as roads, water and power, Dr. Chandramouli said. "All the top ten Indian IT companies have offices in the State and are also planning to expand. The vision of the State Government is to occupy 25 per cent of the country's Information and Communication Technology market."

The State had made advancements in the hardware segment with the arrival of global majors such as Nokia and Motorola. Biotechnology, automobile and auto electronics sectors were also performing well. To address the issue of companies having to train graduates to make them "industry ready," the Government had established an `IT academy,' which would also help in raising the curriculum to international standards, Dr. Chandramouli said.

The Government was planning to introduce computers at the lower and middle school levels. Efforts were also on to take IT to the villages.

S. Mohamed Jaleel, chairman, SIT; N. Krishnan, head, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering; Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli; S. Elango, principal, SIT; and Achuth Sankar S. Nair, director, Centre for Bio-Informatics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, spoke.

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