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The newspapers are filled with reports about the ongoing
slowdown in the infotech sector. Nonetheless Zee Interactive
Learning Systems (ZILS), which is less than two years old,
says that it is all set to break even by next year with
a turnover of Rs 1 billion.
ZILS is the wholly owned subsidiary of Zee Telefilms. In
a Rs 20-billion information technology education market,
ZILS claims to have crossed the Rs 300 million mark for
the year 2000-2001 and is bullish on hitting Rs 3 billion
by 2004.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka Government has chosen the company
to be its training partner in the `Mahithi Sindhu’ scheme.
The Karnataka government saw value in ZILS's credible alliances,
domain knowledge, technology expertise and experience in
generating multimedia content, a company spokesperson said.
Under the `Mahithi Sindhu’ scheme, ZILS will implement computer
based education in 1,000 government high schools. The company
will develop software for the subject - Science from Standards
VIII - X. Side by side teachers will be trained.
All this is part of the initiative of The Department of
State Education Research & Training. DSERT is a body of
the Karnataka government which is responsible for implementing
computer-based education to government high schools in the
state.
The software installed will be in English and Kannada. So
students will find it easy to follow and they will be able
to use it in an effective manner. The software will entertain
and educate through interactive features, animation, voiceover,
graphics, pop-up questions. There will also be video clips
based on imaginative analogies and components locally available
and which children notice in day to day existence.
ZILS CEO Dilip Mahapatra had these remarks to make: The
Schools Board prepares the syllabus, the course structure
and conducts the examinations. We provide the infrastructure
for conducting the courses. We make these courses interactive.
IT education is becoming an integral part of most of the
upper crust schools. We have identified 15,000 schools in
the country that are imparting IT education or are planning
to introduce it in the near future."
Besides this ZILS has already prepared customised multimedia
courses in Mathematics, Science and English for Standard
VIII - X. This is aimed at the CBSE, ICSE and SSC boards.
Right now the company is working on preparing the course
in Geography. ZILS plans to provide software to the schools
abroad.
ZILS also offers Information Technology solutions for teachers
and school's management. ZILS has developed an Internet-based
software. Therefore the school's task of track a student’s
progress based on their mark sheets, home assignments, attendance
and discipline records is made all the more easy.
The company has also made its mark in the corporate world.
It claims to have trained Insurance agents from companies
like Reliance, ICICI- Lombard, Bajaj Allianz and Royal Sundaram.
Zee Interactive Learning Systems is the training partner
of Institute of Company Secretary of India (ICSI) for training
students pursuing the Company Secretary course.
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