Wipro Technologies, the IT, consulting and outsourcing business of Wipro Ltd, will launch its ‘India Gateway’ internship programme for UK university students in July 2012.
According to a press statement, this one-year UK-India collaborative training programme will involve a three-month technology induction course followed by a six-month on-the-job training with Wipro teams. In the last three months, the students will work with live project teams, the statement said.
“Wipro’s talent transformation group has been instrumental in tapping and nurturing over 100,000 talented individuals,” Mr Deepak Jain, Senior Vice-President and Global Head-Work Force Planning, Wipro Technologies, said in the statement.
The selection process for candidates will begin in July 2012 and the first batch comprising 20 students is expected to arrive in India in the second week of September 2012, the statement said.