NIIT perceived “the tsunami of requirement for digital skills —for both freshers and re-skilling existing professionals — as early as 2015, and created a product ‘StackRoute Immersive (SRI)’ to address the issue, according to NIIT Chief Executive Officer Rahul Keshav Patwardhan.

Talking about the SRI programme, he said: “It is a full-time three-month immersive programme aimed at giving working experience rather than imparting training modules in classroom environment. To complete the programme, graduates will have to develop, test and release complex new systems that are cloud- and mobile-enabled, scalable with industry-standard performance levels.”

SRI is aimed at the start-up sector’s full-stack programmer needs.

By design, it is meant for small groups and not to meet the huge need for reskilling existing workforce, he said.

For fresh graduates

NIIT’s digiNXT series of programme was created as an outcome of StackRoute to service the needs of fresh graduates. “We have enrolled over 4,000 students to date.”

“We plan to launch more courses on augmented reality and virtual reality, machine learning, robotics, IoT and cyber security, under digiNXT and expect to train 10,000 freshers under these programmes in FY 2018,” Patwardhan said.

To help companies retrain their existing professionals in digital technology and those keen to equip themselves with digital skills, NIIT has launched new products such as StackRoute Online andDdigiNXT NIC.

“We are also contemplating creation of a utility model for the industry. The training industry world wide is going through this and companies here have also taken cognizance of it,” he said.

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