Union Minister inaugurates 5 NIELIT Centres in NE

Last Updated17/09/2021

National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) helps to build human resource capacity in IT sector.
The inauguration included 3 new NIELIT Centres Kokrajhar and Tezpur (Assam); and upgraded two existing Centres -- Imphal (Manipur) and Aizawl (Mizoram) from Churachandpur.
Union Minister on occasion said that over 5 lakh new jobs have been created in IT alone this year in India.

It is an autonomous scientific society under the administrative control of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
NIELIT is actively engaged in Capacity Building and Skill Development in the areas of Information Technology (IT); Electronics; Communication Technologies; Hardware; Cyber Law etc.
It offers courses both in Formal as well as Non-Formal Sectors and is also one of the National Examination Bodies.
NIELIT accredits institutes/ organizations for the conduct of courses in the Non-Formal Sector.
NIELIT is also rolling out IT Literacy Programmes for many State Governments for its employees and the masses.
NIELIT is entrusted by many organizations to conducts their recruitment examinations.

The presence of NIELIT is largely visible to all major Indian cities and states. They own around 35 office located from Guwahati,imphal to Patna and many cities.
Apart from these offices, their network is throughout India with presence of about 800 institutes in the country.
The Headquarter of NIELIT is situated at New Delhi.