Wipro launches Mission10X program

BANGALORE, INDIA: The challenge IT industry faces today is of the paucity of employable engineers, said Azim H. Premji, chairman of Wipro Limited.

Launching Wipro Technologies’ Mission10X here today, Premji said, “The challenge is not the supply of engineers but their employability. In India 5,00,000 engineers will pass out this year, and it is increasing by 12-13 per cent year-on-year. The paradox is though there are number of colleges increasing the intake of engineering students, the problem is in their employability.”

The answer to this problem, he suggested, lies in innovation. “Mission10X is the quantum innovation project. This project addresses the challenge of employability.”

Mission10X is a learning model that enables faculties in colleges to make student imbibe ‘higher levels of understanding’ of a subject taught in classrooms along with development of ‘key behavioral skills’ in parallel.

“Faculty being the guide to the students, their training is significant to improve the quality of teaching. The success of this model would be reflected in the students,” Premji said.

Mission 10X involves a layered set of capability building workshops to help engineering faculty to nurture talent pool across the country.

“The workshops would start after 45 days from today. The company will conduct 28 sessions across India,” said Selvan D, vice president – Talent Transformation, Wipro.

The program focuses mainly on soft skills development and teaching, and learning pattern. Mission10X will equip 1000 faculty in the current financial year and another 3000 faculty in the next year.

The company aims to cover 6000 faculties in the third year taking the total number of faculty to 10,000 by 2010.

Senior academicians of the country including vice chancellors, deans, principals, and directors of various engineering colleges across the country participated in the launch program on Teachers’ Day.