C-DAC: Press Kit - Archives(Press Releases) - C-DAC's Technology for underprivileged Youth

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sterlite Foundation to design and develop a course in Information Technology. Sterlite Foundation is a non-profit making organization founded in 1992 to help the underprivileged youth to alleviate illiteracy and poverty.

C-DAC will extend its Advanced Computing Training expertise through Sterlite Foundation to the underprivileged youth, enabling them to cope with the changing trends, attitudes and employment demands. In order to ensure a good quality, C-DAC will impart training to faculty members of Sterlite Foundation. The students of Sterlite Foundation can obtain a course completion certificate from C-DAC by appearing for the course end examination conducted by C-DAC.

According to Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC, "This association with Sterlite Foundation is in sync with C-DAC's ideology of proliferating the usage of IT amongst all sections of the society. The benefits of Information Technology need not therefore be restricted to certain sections but must reach out to all, particularly the underprivileged." He further added,
"C-DAC's contributions in developing multilingual computing products further enable this objective. C-DAC's MOU with Sterlite Foundation symbolizes this and is one more step in this direction."

The MOU was signed by Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC and Ms. Suman Didwania of Sterlite Foundation.

C-DAC's Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS) has in less than a decade established a presence in India with its Authorized Training Centres (ATC). At present ACTS has a finely tuned network of over 100 ATC's in India, which provide advanced IT training to over 30,000 students annually in various streams of information technology. ACTS, Diploma in Advanced Computing (DAC), Diploma in VLSI Design (DVLSI), Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (DESD), Diploma in Advanced Computer Arts (DACA), Diploma in Information Technology (DIT), Advanced Diploma in Information Technology (ADIT) are highly rated information technology courses in the Indian IT industry.