The training industry in India is a sunrise industry with a lot of potential. IndiaCan Education Private Limited, a 50:50 joint venture with Educomp Solutions Limited and US-based Pearson Education, plans to open 250 centres across India by the end of this financial year. It aims at training over 500,000 persons annually and to make them 'ready-to-deploy' in the industry by 2012. "Currently with 50 centres, we plan a pan-India network of more than 600 vocational training centres in the next 12-18 months. Each centre can realistically enroll about 1,000 students," as per Srinath Venkatesh, Vice-President (sales, marketing and operations), IndiaCan Recently, Sharekhan and California-based Online Trading Academy have entered into a joint venture to provide trading and investing education in India. Core Projects and Technologies Ltd has signed an MoU with Gujarat Knowledge Society (GKS) to impart job-oriented skill upgradation courses to students from various dis
