CSS Corp Join Forces With ICT Academy To Skill Youth Of Tamil Nadu

CSS Corp, an IT services and technology support company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ICT Academy, a not-for-profit society, to jointly launch an extensive training program to skill the youth of rural, urban and low-income family groups in Tamil Nadu. Through this initiative, CSS Corp endeavours to help build the socio-economic conditions of underserved students through quality education and training in IT. 

According to NASSCOM, the demand-supply gap for soft and technical skills have given rise to an urgent need to re-skill more than 50 percent of India’s IT workforce to meet the requirements of the industry. This has also led to a shortage of employment, specifically for entry-level jobs. With this collaboration, CSS Corp and ICT Academy aim to address the gap by imparting sector-specific skills through training and workshops that will lead to more employment opportunities. 

The training program will be conducted in 20 colleges spread across Tamil Nadu. The program targets to provide 100 hours of intensive activity-based training in soft and technical support skills for 1,000 final year graduating students from engineering, arts & science colleges located in the rural and urban areas of Tamil Nadu. 

The program is also aimed to skill students from financially backward families with an annual income of less than or equal to 2.5 lakhs. Girl students will be given preference during the selection process to keep in line with CSS Corp’s objective of empowering more women in the technology sector.  

Manish Tandon, Chief Executive Officer, CSS Corp said, “One of the major challenges for the IT industry is re-skilling the present and future workforce to bridge the demand-skill gap. CSS Corp has been consistently institutionalizing a culture that promotes learning of newer technologies and solutions to embrace the current disruption. This year, through our CSR initiative, we look forward to imparting the skilled expertise that we have curated to deserving students through quality education and proper training. We are privileged to partner with ICT Academy to design a program that will effectively empower students of Tamil Nadu to be truly future-ready”.