Odisha HRD

Taking its ‘Campus connect programme’ a step ahead, Infosys BPO on Monday launched ‘Project Genesis’ here to train lecturers on BPO skills for raising the employability potential of students in the ITES sector.

The project has achieved a resounding success in states like Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and helped students not only gain employment in Infosys, but develop confidence in their abilities. Since its launch in October 2005, Infosys BPO has worked with more than 1,000 lecturers in 360 colleges in these states and trained more than 12,000 students.

The project would be extended to Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu apart from Orissa this year. …

Project Genesis would train 300 teachers from both government and private colleges from across the State. It would focus mostly on imparting language enhancement techniques and analytical skills, key attributes for BPO industry. On completion of the fortnight-long programme, the teachers would groom the students. Each student would have to pass through three tests. The programme would be be held periodically.

Pai said, Infosys plans to recruit several thousand students from the State in the coming years and engage actively in strengthening academic collaboration with colleges. “We would also tie up with universities for systematic intervention in updating course curriculum.”

He announced that Infosys would be funding a chair in the upcoming IIIT campus here for computer science with a corpus fund of Rs 1 crore.

… IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) has decided to launch a programme on ‘leading and managing’ through HughesNet, across the country including Bhubaneswar.

The programme basically uses a modular approach to step outside your work situation and see how you affect your peer group.

Each module discusses an area of management and helps to use the fundamental principles of human behaviour to encourage employees to serve their own values while serving the goals of their department and the organisation, said a statement by HughesNet It is open for working executives with a minimum of 15 years experience and interested in moving to middle to senior positions within two to three years. IIM-C would be conducting a screening test to enrol candidates.

HughesNet, Bhubaneswar, would offer the programme for 120 students. The last date for forms to reach IIM-C is August 6. Classes would commence from second week of September.