Raipur, 9th May, 2011: Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT), India’s fastest growing vocational skills training company announced their partnership with Chhattisgarh State Commercial Tax Department (CGSCTD) to provide IT skill training to all the district and state headquarters offices of CGSCTD.

IIJT will be training more than 600 government officials nominated by CGSCTD who will then be able to conduct further training programs to other staff members. The training module will consist of the various MS Office applications like MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. Post the training, IIJT will provide an online Certificate Test to all the training batches. The certificate will include MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist Certification) by Microsoft Corp.

Mr. Trivedi, Additional Commissioner, CGSCTD said “In today’s government scenario, we aim to reduce paperwork and maintain an online database of our records. This partnership with IIJT is a step in the same direction. It is a one of its kind initiative under the e-governance programme of the Government of India wherein all processes relating to commercial taxation will soon become computerized with our employees getting trained in the necessary skill set to ensure an online database. IIJT has a good brand name and gives lots of emphasis on practical hands on IT training which will help ensure the work efficiency increase by over 200% ”

According to Mr. AM Parial CEO, CHIPS (Chhattisgarh InfoTech and Biotech Promotion Society) “This tie up between IIJT and CGSCTD is crucial since it is for the first time when Microsoft will certify government employees.”

“TeamLease-IIJT is privileged to partner with CGSCTD in this prestigious initiative. We see this as the way forward in the qualitative transformation of the functioning and increasing work efficiency of the tax department across Chhattisgarh” said Neeti Sharma, Vice President, TeamLease Services.

About TeamLease
TeamLease Services (TeamLease™) is India's largest staffing solutions company and has been spearheading the Temporary Staffing revolution in India for more than seven years now. In this short span of time, TeamLease has deployed more than half a million candidates, and in doing so, it has emerged as one of India's largest private sector employers. The company currently has over 65,000 employees on its rolls, in over 700 locations across the country, working for more than 1,200 clients. In a recent acquisition, TeamLease has acquired a substantial majority stake in the Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT).

About IIJT
Indian Institute of Job Training [IIJT] is one of India’s largest and leading vocational training providers with a capacity of over 1 lakh concurrent students in courses. Started in 2006, IIJT is the fastest growing educational brand in the country with over 120 centers across the country. IIJT offers short term and long term courses in the areas of Finance, Information Technology, Retail and Sales & Marketing. The TeamLease and IIJT strategic alliance aims to help bridge the employability gap and support the industry’s demand for skilled manpower.