Shillong, July 04: Now the students of the state for the first time can avail direct certification in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access from Microsoft headquarter, USA at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Cultural Centre, Shillong. Swami Achyuteshananda, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission said, since the computer training unit of Ramakrishna Mission, Vivekananda Cultural centre of the city had so far trained 25 thousand students of the Region during last 12 years, the Microsoft Authorities of USA approached for the institute for Microsoft certification through online examination.
Speaking on the recently held 57th convocation ceremony of computer trainees of the institute, Zenith Sangma, Minister, Sports and Youth Affairs said, with an objective to facilitate the students of the state regarding computer education, Government of Meghalaya is coming up with a policy to which IT department will be tying up with Ramakrishna Mission and initiate Microsoft certification from the month of July He also asked the students to gather knowledge from the surroundings and to study sincerely without which certificates will be a mere piece of paper.
Speaking on the occassion Commissioner and Secretary, IT, Communication, Urban Affairs and Education, D.P Wahlang said they will take up various initiatives proposed by Ramakrishna Mission regarding subsidy on fees of economically weak background students. He said, they will study the proposal so that more and more people from poor background can avail the facility.
Earlier speaking to Swami Achyuteshananda, Wallang assured sponsorship of 50% of examination fees for Microsoft certification by the government of Meghalaya. The afternoon session was attended by Home Minister Roshan Warjri, who applauded the contribution of Ramakrishna Mission in social service mainly in the field of health, education and relief. Computer is very necessary in employment sector. In this competitive age getting job is not so easy.
So developing skills is the only way to meet with unemployment and job satisfaction, she said. In the occasion 6 meritorious students were awarded with computer and nearly 1500 students with certificates.(SP News)
