CILR to open centers in Bangalore, Hyderabad

CHENNAI: The Chennai-based Center for Intelligent Learning & Research, (CILR),

focussing on the engineering space, will open new training centers in Bangalore

and Hyderabad, shortly. The Bangalore and Hyderabad centers are expected to

commence functioning by August and September, respectively.

Launched in April, the Chennai center provides training in four streams in

the engineering space, such as Mechanical CAD/CAM and Collaborative Product

Commerce for mechanical engineers, Electronic Design and VLSI for electronic

engineers, embedded technology and telecom applications. The course fee

structure ranges between Rs 70,000 and Rs 1.4 lakh with the complete package of

VLSI and CAD claiming the high fee-tag. The course duration ranges between 12-13

weeks.

CILR is also planning to move further north, to Pune focussing on niche areas

of technology such as the automotive industry. The firm is a division of Chennai-based

Paradigm Global Infoservices, which is an engineering industry focussed IT

services company, providing design-to-manufacturing solutions and e-applications

in select verticals such as automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, electronics

and telecom.

"CILR was set up to integrate with our business model of catering to the

global engineering space. Quality engineers with necessary software skills were

hard to find. So we started CILR to cull out CAD/CAM and VLSI specialists,"

Paradigm-Global Infoservices’ chairman and managing director A.S Ramaseshan

said.

"None of the training centers are as focussed as we are. Our competition

is with Infosys and Satyam, which have business units in the engineering space,

and Infotech Enterprises in Hyderabad, which is into GIS," he added.

Since its commenced operations in February 2001, Paradigm-Global has made an

outlay of Rs 6.5 crore for this fiscal, of which Rs 3 crore has already been

invested in the venture, while Rs 2 core has been invested in the training

center. Paradigm-Global is now looking at a revenue for Rs 6.5 crore in this

fiscal, he said.

"The training center is expected to contribute 55 per cent of the

revenue, this year. But we see this flattening out next year with the training

segment contributing 35-40 per cent and offshore and onsite design operations

contributing the rest," said Ramaseshan.