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BodhTree, APTS to empower rural IT employment

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HYDERABAD: Bodhtree Consulting in joint venture with Andhra Pradesh Technology Services (APTS) has launched “Happy Village” a rural empowerment and employment scheme in Pochampally Village, in Andhra Pradesh.

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Hyderabad-based Bodhtree said in a statement that the first phase of the “Happy Village Center” would employ the services of 15 rural youth trained by Bodhtree that is expected to grow to 50 shortly. The Happy Village project is aimed to provide employment opportunities for the youth in their villages which involves setting up of a facility with essential IT infrastructure besides providing coaching and training for the youth to handle data management projects by BodhTree Consulting.

“We are delighted to co-partner with APTS in the Happy Village initiative” Sanjeev Gupta, CEO, BodhTree Consulting, said. “This initiative will not only help penetration of IT in rural villages and create employment opportunities for the rural youth, who has little access to formal education yet, have the desire to perform if given the right opportunity and training to handle IT related projects which do not necessitate formal education, but also to the enterprise as it lowers employee attrition and reduces cost of operations.”

Praveen Kumar, managing director, APTS, said, “As part of our expansion plan APTS is gearing up for a statewide roll out of Happy Village project in three phases. The first phase would cover 306 Talukas. The second phase is expected to cover 1,123 Mandals and the third phase would encompass 25,000 villages.’’

The first ‘Happy Village Center” was inaugurated today by R Damodar Reddy, Minister for Information Technology and Communications, Youth Services & Sports Festivities, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

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