The world values Indian’s IT capabilities and now our government in India is showing us that it very much values out IT as well.
The India Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) today, April 8, 2016, proposed that all IIT students, at the time when they are admitted to the school, are to be given the possible access to INTEREST-FREE loans for their entire tuition, under the government’s “Vidyalakshmi” program. Now, as attractive as that sounds, we have to remember that it is particularly difficult to obtain admission to an IIT school in India. Indeed, the JEE (Joint Entrance Examinations) can be the “make or break” for the dreams of a young person who dreams of being an IT student. Indeed, just to qualify to take the examination students need to have a minimum 75% passing scores in their examinations and /or be in the top 20 percentile in the class XII examination. It is no easy accomplishment for a young person to obtain entrance to IIT.
But, with hard work and perseverance, a young person is able to obtain entrance to IIT – and their government will reward them with an interest-free loan as part of this new “Vidyalakshmi” program.
Why is this so significant? Indian IT is becoming a world class IT. As I have mentioned many times in this blog, we have India countrymen who are heading up some of the most prominent IT companies in the world such as Google and Microsoft to name a few. Entrance to IIT may be a young person’s chance to lift his or her family out of poverty and into the growing middle and upper class in India.
Once finished with IIT schooling, a young graduate can work with IndiaFreelancers.com and earn an amazing income – even while he or she ponders what will be the next step in his or her career.
The future of the world is in IT and with this “Vidyalakshmi” program our government in India recognizes that in India we have some of the best IT personnel in the world – and they are helping to continue this trend. Websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com are leading the way. We have some of the very best IT experts, web programmers, Internet experts, web developers in India working in IndiaFreelancers.com – and we applaud the government’s “Vidyalakshmi” program as a step to continuing the growth of this excellent class of professionals in India.
Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com