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NIIT, a global leader in IT Education and Training celebrated the World Computer Literacy Day recently with a ceremony at the NIIT, Union Place Centre. To mark this occasion 21 scholarships for the SWIFT Praveshi Course were handed over to the children of Vajira Home at Kotte.

The Vajira Home is a home for children displaced by the war. It was co-sponsored by Emirates Airlines. NIIT will be launching programs to enhance the computer literacy levels in 35 countries to mark World Computer Literacy Day and envisages to train 200,000 people across the world to convert them from "No Computers" to "Know Computers".

In Sri Lanka NIIT is pledging its support to the Government's e-Sri Lanka initiative and would be committed to increase the computer literacy level in Sri Lanka.

NIIT currently operates seven state-of-the-art training centres in Sri Lanka at Union Place, Bambalapitiya, Nugegoda, Kandy, Kurunegala, Gampaha and Trincomalee.

The licensee for NIIT in Sri Lanka is MMBL Cyberskills (Pvt) Ltd., which is a BOI approved joint venture between Mercantile Merchant Bank Limited and The Maharajah Organisation Ltd.

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