Excise Department looks to avail C-DIT services

KOCHI:  In a bid to enhance its functioning, the Excise Department is keen on availing the services provided by the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT), said Excise Minister K Babu, on Saturday.While speaking at the inaugural function of the C-DIT regional centre at Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, here, he said the expertise of C-DIT is expected to come in handy for the department while implementing the proposed Right to Service Act.He noted that C-DIT has a major role to play in spreading the knowledge as well as in ensuring transparency in governance. “I hope C-DIT will fully utilise the possibilities that a fast-emerging IT hub like Kochi has to offer,” the minister added. The C-DIT Regional Centre will offer an Advanced Diploma Course, certified by embedded and mobile software giant Wind River, in Systems Modeling for three separate streams; Assembly Language, Embedded C on Red Hat Linux and C on Windows; starting on February 23.According to Pranab Jyothinath, Registrar of C-DIT, the centre will also feature Red Hat’s first educational lab for employability enhancement. An Advanced Diploma course in Quality Management and Test Automation on IBM Tools will also be launched at the centre on March 26. The centre will have the country’s first IBM software engineering lab for academic training, disclosed the officials.