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IT finishing school to come up in Mysore

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AUSPICIOUS BEGINNING: Ramachandra Gowda, Minister for Science and Technology, lighting the lamp to inaugurate the National Science Day organised by Karnataka Science and Technology Academy in Bangalore on Thursday. M.N. Vidyashankar, Secretary, Depa rtment of Information Technology and Biotechnology, is seen. — Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash

BANGALORE: An information technology (IT) finishing school will be launched in Mysore on April 5 to train information technology professionals, M.N. Vidyashankar, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, Science and Technology, said on Thursday.

Speaking at the National Science Day organised by Karnataka Science and Technology Academy at Vijaya Degree College here, he said the institute would be a private initiative supported by the Government.

The institute, he said, would offer one-year post-graduate diploma in information technology (software engineering) and that they were hoping to enrol 5,000 students. The course will commence on May 5, he added.

He said, "The course offers 100 per cent guaranteed employment, and the institute will be enrolling 10,000 students from 2008. The capacity of the institute will be upgraded to accommodate 35,000 students by 2010."

`Nano festival'

Mr. Vidyashankar also said that Bangalore Nano, a "nano festival", would be organised on December 6, 2007, to promote Bangalore as a "nano hotspot."

"We are trying to rope in Nobel laureates, entrepreneurs, scientists and others for the festival, which would be an annual feature," he said.

Earlier, Minister for Science and Technology Ramachandra Gowda said that though India stood 13th in the world for the number of research papers publication, it stands 117th in terms of merit, quality and newness. "We are doing work, but they are not innovative or path-breaking," he added.

He said, "The number of doctorates awarded every year stood around 4,000, which is meagre. On the other hand, U.S. produces 23,000 doctorates, China produces 15,000 and Brazil produces 10,000 doctorates every year."

The National Science Day was observed on the theme, "More crop per drop". Secretary of BHS HES B.V. Narayan Rao was also present.

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