Journalism of Courage
Volkswagens apprenticeship programme
Volkswagen Group India has launched mechatronics apprenticeship programme in Pune. The three-year programme is based on German dual system of vocational education and training. The programme will provide employability in production,maintenance,planning,quality assurance and research and development. The existing Volkswagen academy training centre is being for the training. Volkswagen Group chief representative India and president and managing director,Volkswagen India,John Chacko said,The need of the hour is to have industry-ready people to take care of the challenges.
Zensar gets $4-million worth business
Zensar Technologies recently announced that it has secured over $4-million worth business from existing Zensar clients in collaboration with Akibia. Akibias US and European services in data centre and information security services were merged with Zensars remote infrastructure management service after the acquisition of Akibia by Zensar in 2010. Chicago-based Chief Executive of Zensars Banking,Insurance and Infrastructure Management business and Vice-Chairman of Akibia Vivek Gupta said, Since the launch of our end-to-end service line in April this year,we have secured over $4 million business from and have a pipeline of over $10 million for 2011.
STEC storage technology innovation centre
STEC Inc announced the inauguration of its storage technology innovation centre in the city. The design centre provides STEC with additional storage software development resources. The design centre includes a state-of-art test and research lab. STEC plans to utilise its centre and software development team to create software products which are complementary to its already extensive enterprise-class solid-state portfolio.
Waterloo Motors celebrates 50th anniversary
Waterloo Motors,one of the oldest authorised dealers of Bosch India,celebrated 50 years of its existence. A programme was organised to mark the occasion at Karnataka High School auditorium. S Murlidharan,vice-president,Bosch Automotive Aftermarket was the chief guest. S Raval,General Manager,Western Zone,Ankush Sane,Business Manager,Bosch Pune,Kushal Hegde,Chairman of Waterloo Motors and KSH Group,Rajesh Hegde,Rohit Hegde,M L Satpute,directors of KSH Group,Rakhi Shetty,Pushpa Hegde and customers and employees of the Waterloo Motors were present on the occasion.
