IMPHAL, July 11: The Senapati Extension Centre of National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Imphal was inaugurated on July 10 by Pradeep Kumar Jha , Deputy Commissioner of the District, said a release of the institute.
Uttam Chand Laishram, Director, Science and Technology, Govt. of Manipur and Kh Bodhachandra Singh, Director, NIELIT Imphal attended the function as guest of honour and president respectively, it said.
The extension centre is located at Angkailongdi, Senapati town temporarily and is set up under the project “Development of NE Region by Enhancing Education / Training in IECT area” funded by Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India, it further said.
The govt. of Manipur has allotted land in a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister on March 15 last for its permanent campus in the present district hospital campus. The construction work in the permanent campus will be started after the present district hospital is shifted to the new hospital campus, it continued.
At the onset, the extension centre has introduced three courses: one year NIELIT “O-Level” in IT, one year NIELIT “Computer Hardware Maintenance” O-Level and three months Certificate course in e-Governance Application, it said.
Some more courses such as Office automation, ITES-BPO, Financial Accounting using Tally Multimedia and Animation, Cyber Forensic, Internet Security, Mobile Phone repairing, Repairing of Consumer Electronic Products etc. will be introduced shortly, it informed.
All courses being conducted in this extension centre is free course fee for SC/ST students, it said.