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BVB to set up free IT centres

BVB to set up free IT centres

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Agartala: “Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB), an educational institution, would set up information technology centres in different parts of north-east to provide free IT education to the youths," official sources said.

“We would set up Gandhi Institutions of Information Technology (GIIT) centres at Guwahati and Jorhat in Assam, Shillong in Meghalaya, Agartala in Tripura, Kohima in Nagaland and Gangtok in Sikkim and impart education freely", K V Gopalkrishnan, Regional Director of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan said. He also said that the funds were available from prime minister’s special fund to provide three months free IT education to local youths of the region.

Gopalkrishnan said: “Vidya Bhavan has 112 institutes in India, eight in foreign countries — UK, Canada, Portugal, South Africa, Kuwait, Mexico and Australia and 280 constituent institutions.

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Published: 30 Sep 2008, 11:55 AM IST
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