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Telecom major Ericsson has joined hands with 12 Indian engineering institutions and launched a certification program for providing training in the telecom sector.
Ericsson India President Gowton Achaibar launched the certification programme, EXCEL, along with Amity School of Telecom -Noida, Institute of Technology & Management -Gurgaon and NIT, Durgapur/ Jadavpur University.
"EXCEL is a strategic move to bridge the deficit of contemporarily skilled telecom professionals in the industry. We aim to use this forum to build a healthy academia-industry partnership with leading institutions to not only reduce demand and supply gap but also benefit the entire student fraternity. Besides helping the industry access market-ready talent, the programme will enable students to gain valuable real life perspective," Achaibar said.
The certification programmes comes as a blend of online web-based trainings and interactive seminars delivered by experts and covers 2G, 3G, IP, Multimedia, and VAS fundamentals.
The insitiutes whicha re part of this Ericsson initiative includes Amity School of Telecom -Noida, Institute of Technology & Management- Gurgaon, NIT Hamirpur, Banasthali Vidyapeeth-Rajasthan, LNMIIT-Jaipur, VIT -Pune, Cummins COE for Women-Pune, DA IICT-Ahmedabad, MS Ramaiah -Banagalore, VIT-Vellore, NIT - Durgapur/Jadavpur University and BEC –Shibpur.
