S. Vishnu Sharma
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) incubated startup GUVI is offering online IT skilling courses to prepare for campus placements free of cost to students who would have been impacted by the nation-wide shutdown due to COVID-19.
Sources say, more than 100 technologists from top companies have volunteered to conduct 30-day free webinar sessions on industry-specific IT skills which students can learn online on Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) platform. This measure is a boon for engineering students who are planning to commence preparation for campus placements interviews along with their final year exams.
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GUVI offers free skilling classes to students
As many of the training centres are likely to be closed to prevent spreading of coronavirus, students can now take help of GUVI to prepare for campus placements. Students can subscribe to ‘www.guvi.io‘ to access the courses on the platform without having to pay any charges. In addition to students affected by COVID 19-related shutdown, GUVI is offering its platform to all Engineering College students free of cost for a duration of two weeks.
GUVI, which offers an online platform for students to learn in their mother tongues, is offering specialized courses to upskill students and make them job ready and fine point is that students need not leave their house.
S.P. Balamurugan, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) said there is a need to ensure the safety of students through all possible measures while also ensuring that they have the requisite skills for bright job prospects. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) is contributing in a small but significant manner towards these goals, to ensure the students acquire the right skills and are employable.
‘Our hiring partners have also been gracious in supporting us in this initiative.’ The mission of GUVI is to take technology skills to all the deserving students and ensure demography is never a barricade to acquire skills.
Towards this, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) offers technology skills that are in-demand in the industry in regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali besides English. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) is transforming lives by offering tech skills in the language, which the students are familiar throughout their life and is bridging the gap between academia and industry.
GUVI as an integrated ed-tech platform in vernacular language has a deep penetration in India, with a presence in over 1,000 engineering colleges. It has already upskilled more than 2.14 lakh engineers in latest technology skills such as Python, Java and Machine Learning, among others and help them gain placement in IT firms. Online mentors are also available to support the students to practice the concepts on their online coding platform ‘Code kata.’
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