The announcement was made during the inaugural visit by John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems, to India, and after meeting Pramod Mahajan, the Minister for Information Technology in the capital today.
Chambers is in India for a two-day visit.
The Cisco Networking Academy Program includes resource contributions from Cisco Systems, education, business, government and community organizations around the world, and is focused on teaching students how to design, build, and maintain computer networks. The program prepares students for the 21st Century workplace, while serving as a valuable model for e-learning. As of today, more than 150,000 students have enrolled in the program in 5,900 academies in 99 countries around the world. These academies will receive networking equipment to build leading-edge network labs as well as comprehensive training in the Networking Academy curriculum and technical support from Cisco Systems. Apart from offering the networking curriculum to their own students, Regional Academies are committed to recruiting and supporting up to 10 Local Academies to broaden the availability of the program even further.