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Aptech enrols 300,000 students in literacy program

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NEW DELHI: Aptech Ltd., a global training company, has attained 300,000

students mark in its National Literacy Drive program, under its specially

designed course called "Vidya".

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Vidya, a multilingual course, launched in January 1999, was targeted towards

working executives, government employees, self-employed professionals, traders,

housewives, farmers and students to create a massive base of competent computer

users in all walks of life at the village, taluka, district and city level.

Aptech received good response in the first year and enrolled about 95,000

students under the Vidya course. It increased to over a lakh enrollments in the

year 2000. Aptech estimates around 1.5 lakh enrollments by the end of 2001 for

the course.

Aptech plans to bring 500,000 students by the end of 2002 under the National

Literacy Drive program, by continuing its initiatives with government offices,

banks and other public institutions.

Last year saw nearly 30,000 enrollments from government employees from

different states -- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka

and Rajasthan -- which is all set to double in the current year.

"We have achieved a very good penetration throughout the country that

accounts for about five per cent of students from smaller villages, 12.5 per

cent from taluka levels, 16 per cent from districts and remaining 66.5 per cent

from cities. We have been able to achieve such a good penetration due to a good

spread of our branches and franchisee network of 1358 centers through which this

course was promoted," said Pramod Khera, CEO, Aptech Ltd.

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