IIT Madras, IIM Ahmedabad-incubated Guvi, AICTE offer free courses
Abhiraj P | January 4, 2022 | 07:13 PM IST | 2 mins read
Guvi, incubated by IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad, and AICTE will offer free Python and AI upskilling courses to underprivileged students
NEW DELHI: Guvi, a startup company incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, is offering free Python and AI upskilling courses to socially and economically disadvantaged youth in India in partnership with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
Guvi is an online integrated education technology platform for learning skills like Python, machine learning and Java through technical video courses. It started out as a YouTube Channel. Its objective is to make engineers employable through a different learning method. It offers courses in vernacular Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Bengali, among others. Courses such as Android, C, C++, big data, MongoDB are also provided.
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GUVI contributed to the distribution of free ed-tech coupons as part of the NEAT 3.0 (National Educational Alliance for Technology) initiative launched by education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on January 3.
“The free courses provided by Guvi can be learned in different Indian languages such as Tamil, Hindi and Telugu, among others, along with English. Free access to this will be available through the registration process enabled on GUVI official website.”, said a statement from Guvi.
Those who enrol for the programme also have an option to get an IIT Madras certificate on the GUVI Python programming course by undergoing an assessment and paying a nominal fee to IIT Madras.
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“I appreciate GUVI for joining with AICTE to lead this initiative for empowering the socially and economically disadvantaged youth through its online and vernacular approach in tech-learning,” said Pradhan.
AICTE is distributing free ed-tech coupons to students whose annual family income is less than Rs 8 lakh. These free coupons will be distributed through the NEAT portal. It will be available on the GUVI website too.
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