PUNE: Over 40 lakh college students from 4,000 colleges across the state can train for free skill-based courses to be offered as part of an agreement between the higher and technical education department and IT major Infosys as part of its corporate social responsibility initiative.
The courses will include computer programming, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, finance and several others.
Minister of higher and technical education, Uday Samant, said that under the MoU, the students are set to benefit from 3,900 skill courses from different categories.
Samant said, “All these courses would be conducted online and available on the Springboard platform of the private company. They will be free and optional which students can pursue along with their regular degree courses.”
The courses will be open to arts, science and commerce colleges from Nagpur and Technical College, Ratnagiri in the first phase.
Samant said this agreement will benefit 1,600 technical colleges and 10 lakh technical students and 3,000 higher education colleges and 30 lakh students in state.
All students who complete the course will receive a certificate. Samant said that Infosys will conduct a training of teachers and officials at its Mysuru base.
“These courses will help students increase their chances of employment. Students will be guided by industry experts so they will be job-ready once they complete the course. The platform also enables students to take an online exam of the course,” Samant said.
