Google to Offer Online IT Courses in India

Updated on: Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Search engine giant Google and online education company Udacity launched IT courses in India, branching outside the US to tap the country`s millions of software developers scrambling for jobs.

The two organisations teamed with Indian conglomerate Tata to offer online technical training courses, focusing on teaching software developers to build apps for Android, the Google-backed mobile operating system.

Priced at Rs 9,800 (USD 148) a month, the duration of the courses will take between six and nine months to complete, with lessons from Google instructors based in the United States. Students will get 50 percent of tuition costs back on graduation. Google is looking to cash in on skilling up many of India's 3.6 million developers, the second largest number worldwide, while at the same time seeking more developers who can programme for Android devices.

"While India has millions of software developers, we are still lagging in creating world-class apps," Google India Managing Director Rajan Anandan told reporters in India's IT hub of Bangalore. The companies will also offer 1,000 scholarships and all graduates will be invited to a job fair next year hosted by Google in India.

The courses have been introduced just as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Silicon Valley this weekend as part of a visit to the US, seeking foreign INVESTMENT in India's plethora of start-ups as well as financial tie-ups with US tech giants.

The Prime minister will meet Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, and is also expected to reassure IT CEOs of efforts to reduce red tape and make it easier to do business in India, a massive MARKET of 1.26 billion people. India also boasts a large number of engineering and IT specialists who have left the country to rise to the top of the US corporate world, including Google's new Chief Executive Sundar Pichai and Microsoft head Satya Nadella.

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