Guwahati: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization, announced the launch of its pioneering initiative to train and develop talent available in the North East of India. With a dedicated learning centre in Guwahati, Assam, TCS is the first Indian IT company to invest in the North East of India. The new TCS Learning Centre is based at the sprawling IIT campus at Guwahati. It has the capacity to train up to 200 professionals at one time and is already operational.

Trainees at the new TCS centre also have access to all facilities on the IIT Guwahati campus including classrooms, library as well as sports and recreational facilities. The TCS Learning Center is being used to conduct TCS' globally recognized Initial Learning Programe for fresh engineering graduates from the North East. TCS had signed an MoU with IIT-Guwahati and the state government of Assam in March 2008 to set up a dedicated training facility in the State and also collaborate with IIT, Guwahati in Research and Development efforts based on mutual interest."Almost 300 people have already been trained at the Guwahati centre.

This initiative to further enhance the suitability of talent here will help link talent from the North East of the country to the fast-growing Indian IT industry," said Ajoy Mukherjee, Vice President and Head, Global HR, TCS.TCS has been closely partnering with various states in the North East to implement several e-governance projects in the region.