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IT finishing school set to commence second batch
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IT finishing school set to commence second batch
Candidates will be chosen from across the country
BS REPORTER Mysore, 23 November
T he finishing school of Raman International Institute of Information Technology (RiiiT), claimed to be the first such in the country, will select its second batch of candidates from across the country.
The first batch got an en­couraging response with 800 students applying to the fin­ishing school, established on a 2.5-acre plot allotted by the Karnataka Industrial Area De­velopment Board (KIADB) in the Hebbal Industrial Area, Mysore.
The selected 68 students are attending the programme now.
"While our selection was limited to South India and was more confined to Karnataka, we will be promoting our ad­mission for the second batch across India," RiiiT Managing Director and CEO S V Venkatesh told Business Stan­dard.
"Spread across 25,000 square feet built area, the cam­pus is wi-fi enabled.
The courses were launched during June last. The industry interface is very good.
Every week, CXO meets are arranged. This month, we have
uates, RiiiT is supported by In­formation Technology and Biotechnology Department of the Government of Karnataka.
"Our plans include ad­dressing the industry talent's crunch by enhancing the tal­ent pool to optimise the in­dustry's potential through its well-defined world class cur­riculum designed keeping in mind the growing demands of the IT industry.
The institute is focussing on providing innovative ICT solutions for education glob­ally and to actively co-ordinate with IT companies to meet their huge employable manpower requirement," Venkatesh said.
IT, BT and ST Secretary M N Vidyashankar will inau­gurate the RiiiT campus on November 24.
This will be followed by a career conference aimed at ed­ucating freshers on the pres­ent requirements of the IT in­dustry, challenges of tier II city students in the IT segment, and how to equip them to meet the IT industry requirements.
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launched the admission process for the second batch. The in­take is among the BE and B Sc mainstream students," he said. Established with the ob­jective of training students who would be industry-ready IT pro­fessionals to bridge the gap be­tween IT industry requirements and quality talent pool grad-