Microsoft India inks MoU with Maharashtra Govt

Mumbai: The Government of Maharashtra has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft India for improving information and communication technology adoption in schools and develop job skills.

Under the agreement, Microsoft will train 6,000 teachers, as well as 100,000 pre-service teachers over the next two years.

The MoU is an extension of an existing relationship between Microsoft and the state government, under which Microsoft India has set up information technology academies at Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad and trained over 92,000 teachers.

Additionally, the software firm will build last-mile capacity among educators. One educator from each cluster in the state will undergo a 10-day training module in a classroom setup.

Microsoft will conduct over 200 sessions at the district level over the next two years for training 6,000 resources in as many clusters.