A Central government-run data expertise (IT) institute in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur has launched a European Union-funded venture, empowering women to affix IT sector to scale back gender hole in IT and associated sectors in south Asia, an official stated on Saturday.
The Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology — Design and Manufacturing (PDPM IIIT-DM) has launched a year-long venture. “Reducing the gender gap in higher and technical education in the south Asian region is the need of the hour for overall growth,” institute’s in-charge director P N Kondekar stated.
“Serious efforts are needed for greater involvement of girls in emerging technologies and future professions for the growth of the region,” he stated.
According to the venture crew’s senior professor Aparajita Ojha, below the venture, ability improvement programmes can be performed in rising applied sciences for undergraduate women in south Asia. “We have the expertise to train teachers for capacity building in niche areas of the IT/ITES sectors. We have contacted teachers in Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh and held discussions on the project,” she stated.
“The institute will prepare e-content for the development programme in the local language with support from teachers of countries specific to the region,” the senior professor stated.
“The project is a part of Asi@Connect programme funded by the European Union,” she added.
With inputs from PTI.
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