Indiatimes, Big Leap launch IT Zindabad scholarship

KOLKATA: Indiatimes.com, an Indian portal and Kolkata based Big Leap Academy

have announced a tie-up to launch an IT Zindabad Scholarship for IT education.

India's largest IT scholarship, IT Zindabad is worth Rs 69.86 crore, includes

100 full scholarships, 20,000 half scholarships and 20,000 quarter scholarships.

This scholarship comes at a time soon after the 10+2 and degree examinations and

opens the doors for many students who would like to pursue a career in IT. Big

Leap, formerly El Net-3, has courses conducted and designed jointly with

IIT-Kharagpur.

Students, who have completed their twelfth examination, can opt for

"Technocrat" course that comprises of an Introduction to Computer

Systems, UNIX Operating System, Programming in C & Data Structure, Object

Oriented Programming with C++, Programming in Java, Java Database Connectivity

(JDBC), Oracle 8i and Visual Basic. Graduates in any stream, 3rd year

engineering degree students or 3 year engineering diploma holders from any AICTE

approved polytechnic can opt for "Developer" course comprising C, Data

Structure and Unix, OOP with C++, TCP I/P Programming, RDBMS Design and Oracle.

The scholarship will be awarded based on a 2-hour entrance test and

interview. Students can either collect their entry forms from any of the 100 Big

Leap centers in 31 cities in India or they can simply download the form from

Indiatimes.com. The completed entry forms need to be submitted at any Big Leap

center along with required documents by the 27th July 2001. The entrance exam

will be held on the 29th July 2001

To help students gear up for the exam and understand the real picture of the

IT industry, Indiatimes.com will have articles written by IT experts, have IT

interview FAQ online, chats with experts, mock exams and much more.