TCS iON to add 200,000 seats across 200 centres IN EXPANSION MODE
TCS iON, a unit of Tata Consultancy Services that provides cloud-based solutions to examination boards, will create 200,000 seats in 200 new centres, including its biggest facility in Kolkata.
Around 200,000 candidates can appear for an examination across the country through the TCS iON platform, which can declare raw scores the same night. The process in manual mode takes nine months.
TCS iON has conducted examinations for the IITs, AIIMS. CMC, Vellore, JIPMER, the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka, Educational Consultants India Limited, and the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection.
Besides, the railways, banks and public sector undertakings also use the company’s platform.
Speaking on the sidelines of an event to launch a new centre in Chennai, V Ramaswamy, global head, TCS iON, said assessment was a challenge for bodies conducting examinations in India. An estimated 25-30 billion assessments take place manually in the country.
Over the next year, TCS iON plans to add 200,000 ▪TCS iON platform is curently being used by a number of corporates as well as railways, banks and public sector undertakings ▪So far, the company has conducted seats to the 350,000 seats it already has. Of the 200 new centres, 12-15 will be TCS centres and the rest will be operated by entrepreneurs.
Ramaswamy said settingup a 250-seat centre would cost ~1 crore.
The Chennai facility with 1,500 seats spread over 38,000 square feet will be examinations for the IITs, AIIMS. CMC, Vellore, ▪Over the next year, TCS iON plans to add 200,000 seats across its 200 new centres ▪Of the 200 new centres, 12-15 will be TCS centres and the rest will be operated by entrepreneurs second signature facility set up by TCS after its Noida centre. TCS iON has 3,000 seats at its Noida facility.
“We are a business unit and we have a cutting edge platform. We will contribute significantly to TCS. This is aligned to TCS’ strategy to expand digital technology,” Ramaswamy said.