NIIT Limited on the occasion of the World Computer Literacy Day 2005 is planning to set up computer literacy kiosks in 20 locations spread over the rural areas of the country and to train 20,000 village children free of cost.
Speaking at a function jointly organised by the Rotary Club, Kolkata to help bridge the digital divide, Tulika Sinha, vice president India east, NIIT said that there are already 40 such kiosks existing across the country and in addition to the above would also provide computer training to 50,000 people at a reduced cost.
"NIIT would be providing this familiarising training at a much reduced fee on a specially developed programme called 'Swift', a simple, interactive and easy to learn programme for basic learners. This recent addition of the numbers in training would make the number of people touched by the WCLD programme reach half a million mark, making it one of the most powerful computer literacy movement