* Skills and talent development firm NIIT aims to train about 20,000 students this year on future technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and virtual reality (VR) to meet the changing skill set requirement of various industries.
* The company will launch the new courses from the month of May to be offered from its centers and later extend them to engineering colleges later.
* These programmes will cover Java Stack, Mean Stack, Big Data and Data Sciences Stack, Cloud Stack, IoT Stack, robotics and VR.
* NIIT will roll out 12-14 week courses from 150 centres and later expand them to other centres and engineering colleges as well. The fees start at about Rs 25,000.
* According to industry reports, India is home to digitally ready talent pool of five lakh engineers suitable to execute digital transformation projects. This is expected to increase to over a million engineers trained in digital transformation technologies by 2020.
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