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.