IIT Madras and Nasscomm tie-up will skill 4 million students and employees in IT industry

IT industry body Nasscom announced their decision to enter a tie-up with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in order to provide skill development for students and employees in the Information Technology sector and IT-enabled Services (ITeS). This collaboration is in line with Nascomm's FutureSkills Platform, that is targeted at reskilling or upskilling four million people from the IT-ITeS industry, students entering the workforce and employees of other industries and government who need to learn digital skills of the future," a Nasscomm statement said.

The partnership will help Nasscom build a future-ready workforce, ready to work with emerging technologies. This will ensure that there is plenty of trained manpower for the jobs being created in the evolving ecosystem, the statement said. The partnership will be directly with the Sector Skills Council (SSC) which is the education and skill development initiative of Nasscom. The SSC and IIT Madras will work towards building a skills academy and establish a programme with extensive courses and training programmes to facilitate skill building in the institution, the statement said. 

Commenting on the partnership, Amit Aggarwal, CEO, IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council, Nasscom, said this MoU "will be a significant catalyst for the IT-ITeS industry's FutureSkills initiative, which aims to get India accelerated on the path to becoming the global hub for talent for the new emerging technologies like AI (Artificial Intelligence), IoT (Internet of Things), cyber security, big data, cloud and blockchain."