New Delhi: (IANS) NIIT, a leading IT training company in India, has bagged five Chinese awards including the one for the Most Influential IT Training Brand in China for its efforts to create well-trained world-class professionals in that country.

According to the IT training major, the awards were conferred by the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy (CSEDS), which is under China’s ministry of education.

“For over a decade now, NIIT has been involved in creation of skilled ICT manpower in China and has trained close to a hundred thousand students till date. These awards are recognition of our efforts, to create a large number of well-trained, world-class IT professionals in line with business needs for IT enterprises in the country,” Vijay Thadani, chief executive of the company, said in a statement Tuesday.

The awards include the Most Influential IT Training Brand in China, Top-10 Brand in the overall training industry of China, Top-10 Brand in Student Placement within training industry in China, Most Influential Brand in Franchising within training industry of China and Celebrity award to Prakash Menon, president of NIIT China, for influencing the development of training industry in that country.

The awards were conferred on the firm at a summit, “60 years of new direction - Who will lead the next 60 years”, that was aimed at highlighting China’s achievement in private educational training, to set new targets for the next 60 years and to lead the new direction in the next 60 years.

NIIT started its operations in China 1997 and was the first Indian IT enterprise to do so, according to the company. Currently, it has 183 cooperative education and training sites at 25 provinces and cities in China.

-- IANS