Mysore to host country's first Finishing School for IT sector

Bangalore, Feb 22 (UNI) The manpower-starved Information Technology sector in the country will soon throng the palace city of Mysore for grabbing middle level IT personnel, with the country's first finishing school set to start operations there next month.

Revealing this at an interaction organised by the Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Karnataka Information Technology and Biotechnology Secretary M N Vidyashankar said three leading IT companies have taken up the initiative to set up the finishing school, which would in the first year have 5,000 students and increase the strength five to six times in the subsequent years.

He said the idea, mooted by the Centre during the last Bangalore IT.in, would now become a reality.

Mr Vidyashankar said that though graduates churned out by colleges in the State have employment potential, the employable number was hardly 30 per cent in the State, with the percentage in the city being 38 and that of rural areas 23. The Finishing School would cater to the requirement of the IT and ITeS sector initially, he added.

He said the school, to be affiliated to the Mysore University, would initially offer an one year diploma course. The sector felt that atleast one year was required to tune up graduates to make them employable. Subsequently, the course could be doctored to the requirement of the sector, he added.

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