NIIT- A global skill and career center in the making

The National Institute of Information and Technology (NIIT) is no longer just an IT institute, it is rather fast becoming a skills and talent development firm nurturing talents in the field of banking, retail, telecom, healthcare, e-commerce and also startups.

As per a report published in Economic Times, the company is undergoing a restructuring program, as part of which it has relocated its skills and career centers from South Africa and Mexico to India and China.

The IT biggie is targeting India and China as potent markets for the expansion program.

Keshav Patwardhan, who has lately replaced Vijay K Thadani as the NIIT CEO has said, "Our skills and careers business is essentially now focused only on India and China. We had around 60 centers in countries where we decided to discontinue our operations so that we can redirect all the resources to focus on India and China."

The company, which is running 139 colleges across 66 cities in China, was established there in 1997. As per NIIT’s account, it has trained more than 150,000 students in China and is now focusing on Big Data and data analytics.

Not just this, but the company is also opening doors for start-ups and retraining mid-tier IT professionals. Another major target area of NIIT is to launch new short and intense programs around SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud).

The NIIT cloud campus which was earlier restricted to the registered NIIT students is now open for all. For infrastructure, it is planning to partner with schools and colleges. The multi-tasking centers too are being stretched out to 600 with 300 more in Sector C and D cities. "All the centers will offer our entire curriculum and not just IT training," informed Patwardhan.