HCL development centre in Mysore

Mysore Centre chief R Krishna said today that the CDC, opened about six weeks ago, is equipped with worldclass infrastructure and highly trained HCL professionals.

Besides imparting IT skills, including for those aspiring jobs in call centres, CDC will offer job placement opportunity for successful students in the HCL, which has 53,000 professionals operating in 18 countries.

HCL is the largest IT company in India that is focussed exclusively on providing comprehensive range of ICT products, solutions and services to the customers in the domestic market.

It is also the largest PC manufacturer in India with the largest support and service network having about 3,000 professionals, trained in system and network integration. It offers several career courses including the hugely popular certified network engineer, certified engineer, and certified system administrator.

Planned to offer these courses, the Mysore CDC has set a target to train 500 professionals per annum offering one month, one year and three-year career development programmes of HCL standards, Centre manager Suryanarayana said.

"The Mysore CDC was launched with the objective of catering to students, including those from rural parts of Mysore. With Karnataka Government promoting tier II cities for setting up IT companies, opportunities for cities like Mysore are tremendous. However, there is a demand-supply gap of quality professionals across the state, which is the key centre for India's IT industry. We want to fill this gap as far as possible in this part of Karnataka," Krishna said.

A study of Cisco-IDC estimates that one-third of companies are not able to fill their demand for networking professionals.

Also according to an estimate by E-Value, there is an annual demand of around two lakh networking professionals in the country, while the supply is limited to about 60 per cent of the demand. This deficit is further estimated to grow at 21 per cent till 2010, he said.

As part of corporate social responsibility, HCL-CDC is conducting free coaching classes to the physically challenged and deserving rural students on May 26 and 27 in Mysore.

Already 50 handicapped students of the JSS Institution for the Handicapped have registered for the programme. Even those with 10+2 will get an exposure to IT basics in the two-day programme, CDC director Suma Krishna said.