Punjab-based Rayat-Bahra Group, the leading professional & technical educational group, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IBM India and its training partner Karrox Technologies Ltd to set up a centre of excellence in Punjab.

It should be noted that this is for the first time that IBM has signed MoU with any educational institute in Punjab.

According to official sources, the CoE, which would come up on over 25 acres on the Rajpura-Delhi road next year, will offer specialized training to students on IBM technologies under the IBM career education in IBM software (CEIS) program.

During the programme, the students would be trained by Karrox on the five IBM software brands - Tivoli, DB2, Lotus, Web Sphere and Rational.

The students can enroll for this training, which will have duration of 140 to 200 hours in their fourth year of engineering at very nominal fees.

Presently, Rayat-Bahra group has 26 educational institutes in Punjab and 5 engineering colleges in different cities of the state.