HCL Career Development Centre (CDC) has announced an alliance with the Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI) for pan-India roll of Centre for Development of Employable Skills (CDES). The Centre for Development of Employable Skills has been formed to impart job-oriented skills and induce self-employment skills amongst youth in rural India. The training programme would cover Basic Communication Skills, English Language Learning, Sales Orientation, Basics of Computer Hardware and Networking, Business Applications and Basic Accounting Process.
CNRI’s reach and understanding of the rural needs coupled with HCL’s extensive IT experience and expertise will ensure that CDES offers quality IT infrastructure, useful training software with focussed content, training kits and courseware for specially designed programmes. CDES has been primarily designed to address skill development needs of the rural youth and would expand into the Tier III and IV cities covering remote districts, towns and villages of the country.
“Today, the need to create a progressive environment of growth is more than ever before. The Indian economy, in the past few years, has grown, but the growth can be accelerated and made more inclusive by providing an impetus to IT education in rural India that, in turn, will impart development of modern IT skills among rural youth,” said George Paul, Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems. We are sure that this initiative by HCL CDC and CNRI will go a long way in setting benchmarks for taking ICT education to path-breaking levels.”
The courses offered at CDES comprises of English learning supported in vernacular languages along with basics of hardware and networking, and sales and accounting process. Students completing their courses from CDES will obtain certificates jointly by HCL and CNRI.
