Influx-KEONICS launches TOTAL Graduate Programme

By Flynn Remedios – FUTURISTIC MEDIA NETWORK

Bangalore: The Pune-based 200-crore plus Influx Group in a strategic and major move to support rural and urban youth to shape up their career, has announced a 'Total Graduate Programme' jointly with the Karnataka Government owned KEONICS to give finishing touch to graduate students to brighten their employment prospects. Influx Infotech, the Information Technology arm of Influx made the announcement in Bangalore recently.

Briefing newsmen after the formal launch of the programme, Keonics Director (Operations) B S Patri said the programme would be covered by 250 centres of KEONICS in the first phase with the help of the Influx group across the country, mainly targeting students of various courses such as BA, B Sc, B Com, BE, BBA and BBM, to improve their skills and make them ready for industry use.

Explaining the programme, Influx Chairman and Managing Director Shivaaji Chamkire said the 60-hour training programme comprised basic computers, operating system, MS Office Package, database concepts, among other things.

The programme is aimed at helping students improve their communication and management skills, personality development and career guidance, he explained. Chamkire added that Influx would open 1,000 centres to implement the programme as against the existing 24 outlets by March 2009. The turnover of the company which is currently around Rs 200 crore is expected to cross Rs 1,000 crore by 2010, he added.

Huawei to set up a plant in India

PTI[ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2005 02:05:29 PM]

SHENZEN: Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei Technologies is in the process of setting up a manufacturing plant in India with an investment of $ 60 million for which the company has sought approval from the Government. "We are planning local manufacturing in India and will invest $ 60 million for the same. We applied in March 2005 for approval for the facility from Foreign Investment Promotion Board and waiting for the decision," Huawei Tech spokesperson Fu Jun said. He said the proposed manufacturing plant would meet the future bidding criteria in telecom PSUs where local manufacturing unit would be mandatory condition as well as enable the company to deliver quick customer service.

The proposed center to come up in Bangalore will focus on NGN (Next Generation Network), fixed wireless terminals, some part of 3G equipment, designing process of Huawei's products. Huawei is hopeful of starting the facility this year once the FIPB nod comes in, he added. Huawei's decision on manufacturing plant in India follows the policy decision of Department of Telecom to make vendors mandatorily have a production unit in the country. Its rivals like Nokia and Ericsson have manufacturing facilities in some form or other in India.