Wipro Trust announces tie-up with NASSCOM

BANGALORE, INDIA: Mission10X, a not-for-profit trust launched by Wipro Limited, announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NASSCOM to facilitate enhancement of employability skills of engineering students in IT and related sectors.

The MoU intends to enhance employability skills through multi-pronged approach. It will introduce various skill development programs periodically like ‘Foundation Skills in IT’ (FSIT) for engineering graduates. NASSCOM Assessment of Competence-Technology (NAC-Tech) to be used for assessing employability skills of students, both as Diagnostic test and Final test.

Engineering faculty training in Pedagogy for FSIT will be supported by Mission10X. It will also enable faculty empowerment through Mission10X Learning Approach (MxLA), conduct faculty enablement workshops and engagements, undertake joint research in creation of educational assets and disseminating new learning.

Pratik Kumar, executive VP, Human Resources, Wipro Limited said, “We are delighted at the prospect of partnering with NASSCOM. This will significantly help the Mission10X initiative to make a much wider impact in enhancing pedagogy among Engineering Academia. With its focus on enhancing employability of graduating students, this should help the country compete globally with a more enabled workforce”

On an average about 550,000 engineering graduates pass out every year from more than a 3000 engineering colleges across the country.

While India currently boasts of one of the world's largest and most qualified pools of scientific and engineering manpower, the growing global demand for appropriately skilled, industry oriented professionals and a gradually widening demand-supply gap are expected to test the limits of India's manpower development capabilities.

As a part of this understanding, Mission10X and NASSCOM will support deployment of eLearning content for faculty capability building like “Aarambh” for the young engineering faculty members and work together for promoting “Unified Learning Kit” which has the potential to reduce the gap between academia and industry practices in multiple engineering disciplines.