Nasscom plans to recruit 20,000 youths from North East
The initiative is taken so that young talents from the region could join India's booming IT sector and business process outsourcing.
By PTI |
AGARTALA: National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) with assistance from the Department of North Eastern Region (DONER) would recruit 20,000 youths from the eight states in the North East, including Sikkim, NASSCOM sources said on Sunday.
The initiative for the recruitment drive was being done with the help of DONER so that young talents from the region could join India's booming IT sector and business process outsourcing, sources in NASSCOM, the apex body of Indian IT and service companies, said here today.
It has created a certification programme called Nasscom Assessment of Competence (NAC) for a common and transparent recruitment process and about 100 NAC tests would be conducted in the region by the end of this month, Tripura Manpower and Employment Department Director Brajamohan Sinha said.
Following the tests, job fairs would be organised for the successful candidates for recruitment in the ITeS-BPO industry early next year, director said.
Nasscom sources said 8,000 would be recruited from Assam followed by 3,500 from Tripura, 2000 in Nagaland, 1,500 each from Mizoram, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh and 1000 each from Manipur and Sikkim.
India has emerged as one of the leaders in IT sector in the world which is also boosting the economy of the country, Nasscom sources said.
The initiative for the recruitment drive was being done with the help of DONER so that young talents from the region could join India's booming IT sector and business process outsourcing, sources in NASSCOM, the apex body of Indian IT and service companies, said here today.
It has created a certification programme called Nasscom Assessment of Competence (NAC) for a common and transparent recruitment process and about 100 NAC tests would be conducted in the region by the end of this month, Tripura Manpower and Employment Department Director Brajamohan Sinha said.
Following the tests, job fairs would be organised for the successful candidates for recruitment in the ITeS-BPO industry early next year, director said.
Nasscom sources said 8,000 would be recruited from Assam followed by 3,500 from Tripura, 2000 in Nagaland, 1,500 each from Mizoram, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh and 1000 each from Manipur and Sikkim.
India has emerged as one of the leaders in IT sector in the world which is also boosting the economy of the country, Nasscom sources said.
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