IT training centers mushrooming in India

BANGALORE: New Horizons India Ltd (NHIL), the joint venture between New Horizons Worldwide and Shriram Global Technologies today announced its expansion plans for South India and Sri Lanka. It has set up a state of the art training center in Bangalore and plans to set up 40 centers in South India and Sri Lanka over the next three years with an investment of over Rs. 60 crore.

The model adopted for setting up these centers involves building company owned facilities in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad and franchisee owned facilities in key cities such as Colombo, Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai, Cochin, Trivandrum, Vishakapatnam etc.

Announcing the expansion plans of the World's largest IT trainer, Ajay Sharma, President and CEO, New Horizons India Limited said, "Over the last 9 months of the company's operations in Bangalore, we are already working closely with more than 100 enterprise customers. We have trained in excess of 2000 students/ working professionals over this period. Bangalore has already signed up with two leading colleges to offer technology courses. More colleges in Karnataka are finalizing courses leading to International Certification on technologies like Oracle and Linux with the help of New Horizons."

Highlighting the USPs of New Horizons' course offering, Mr. Pankil Shah, Associate Vice President, South Zone, New Horizons India added, "New Horizons offers training on all technologies and with its unique blended training methodology ensures measurable ROI. An independent research audit was conducted by KnowledgeAdvisors, a learning analytics company, and was based on data that was collected two months after New Horizons students received training and had gone back to their jobs. Within eight weeks of completing training, participants showed 38 percent of an average performance improvement, which was directly attributable and isolated to New Horizons training, as opposed to other factors that can influence performance gains. We also provide training on soft skills."