NIIT celebrates silver jubilee at Nagpur

Nagpur, Septem,ber 1, 2015: NIIT Limited, a global leader in skills and talent development, celebrated 25th anniversary of the NIIT Nagpur Centre. Over the last 25 years NIIT Nagpur has trained and placed thousands of youth from the city in leading corporates like Infosys, Capgemini, Wipro, Astral, ICICI Bank to name a few.  A function organized to commemorate the occasion was graced by Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Group & Founder NIIT University, as the Chief Guest. Also present were Shivan Bhargava, Group President, Skills and Careers Group, NIIT Ltd and Ms Rina Sinha, NIIT Nagpur.

 

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Group & Founder NIIT University said, “I congratulate you all who has made the 25 years journey of NIIT Nagpur eventful and a success. This is only the beginning. NIIT today is standing at the threshold of a transformational change driven by upskilling and talent development requirements of the evolving knowledge economy.  We will continue to offer innovative training programs backed by modern technology to the youth here,” added Mr. Pawar. 

NIIT Nagpur has placed more than 10000 students who pursued GNIIT in corporates like Infosys, Capgemini, Wipro, Astral, Persistent Systems, Infocepts, e Caliber, Global Logic, Dinshaws, Dominos, Western Coalfields Ltd. (WCL), MOIL Ltd., Easypack, Light house Systems etc. Over 800 IFBI students have been placed in leading banks like ICICI , Axis, Lakshmi Vilas, ING Vysya , IndusInd etc. Corporate training programs have been imparted to NEERI, NECO, Sunflag Industries, Power Grid Corporation, CBWE, WCL and MOIL. 

Special training programs have also been organized for Air Force Wives Welfare Association and South East Central Railways Wives Welfare Organisation. 5000 students have been trained for Ministry of Rural Development (MORD) and 300 for Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE).

Under the ICT Project for government school NIIT Nagpur created infrastructure and serviced 185 zilla parishad and 405 schools in Phase 2 of the Maharashtra State Government.

NIIT Nagpur has recently entered into a tie-up with Maharashtra Centre for Entrepreneur Development (MCED) to train budding entrepreneurs in Nagpur and parts of Vidarbha on Skill development programs in Data Entry, Accounting etc. 

NIIT Nagpur has also conducted free training for children and widows of Vidarbha Farmers’ suicide families in Yawatmal and Wardha along with Vandana Foundation and local NGOs. 

Established in the year 1990 NIIT Nagpur offers new age training programs in Executive Management, Banking and Finance, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Cloud & Mobile Software Engineering, Big Data and Business Analytics, e-Commerce & Business Administration and Cloud Computing & IT Management. 

The programs are offered on pioneering NIIT Cloud CampusTM empowering student to learn on his own terms, at his own pace, wherever and whenever he wants it. Students enjoy higher mobility as they can easily access educational services using a Netbook or a Mobile device that connects them to NIIT's Cloud CampusTMnetwork.  These services are managed by NIIT centrally using the power of Cloud Computing.