Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

Big Initiative by AVIXA In India

INDIA: In what can be taken as a very

decisive, futurisc iniave towards

developing 'cerfied talent pool' in India,

AVIXA (formerly InfoComm Internaonal)

got its premier Cerfied Technology

Specialist (CTS) programme – a globally

acknowledged benchmark for any aspiring

AV professional – now accredited by India's

Naonal Accreditaon Board for Educaon

and Training (NABET), the constuent Board

of Quality Council of India (QCI)- which is a

Government of India iniave with industry

representaon.

A signed document (Memorandum of

Understanding) to this effect has been

presented by QCI's Secretary General Dr.

Ravi P Singh to AVIXA's Regional Director-

IMEA Gaurab Majumdar at a special

programme organized at NABET premises in

New Delhi recently.

NABET works to develop qualified personnel

and credible vocaonal training courses in

various industry sectors. To earn

accreditaon, an organizaon must

demonstrate effecve management and

delivery of a holisc educaon program

aimed at overall development of students.

By means of this accreditaon, AVIXA has

apparently broken a new, big ground

towards expanding the CTS programme to

the wider countryside of India thereby

strengthening the much needed cerfied

talent pool for the demanding audio-visual

industry as well as associated industries.

That NABET, under the auspices of QCI, has

its acvies aimed at improvising quality

standards across a wide range of industry

segments such as healthcare, infrastructure,

environment protecon, educaon and

social sectors, the CTS training and

cerficaon programmes can now be

promoted and implemented with more

authencity and applicaon.

“It's very beneficial for both organizaons to

come together for a common cause of

creang wider talent pool

for the industrial sector,”

said QCI Secretary General

Dr. Ravi P. Singh. “We will

help support the CTS

programme across the

member instuons and

enterprises in India. Together, we will herald

a new era of competent and cerfied

professionals for the country's excellence in

business.”

Vanita Yadav, Director, and C S Sharma,

Deputy Director at the QCI, along with their

team explained how QCI and NABET work

and how their accreditaon process helps

industry upgrade and maintain sustained

quality standards. They hoped that together,

QCI and AVIXA can herald a new era

competent and cerfied generaon for the

country's excellence in business and life

streams.

AVIXA, as it is, has been very proacve in its

remodelled format, making its training and

cerficaon programmes affordable to larger

secons of the industry. Its reducon of

requisite fee for taking CTS training and

examinaon by half for Indian aspirants has

been received with great appreciaon by

Indian AV industry ranks.

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“With a growing Indian AV market, there is a

large pool of professionals in demand,” said

Gaurab Majumdar. “This announcement is

an extension of AVIXA's commitment to

India's rapidly expanding AV market,” he

said. “This cerficaon, now recognized by

NABET, will help Indian students pursue a

career path in this industry. As the CTS

programme connues to be adopted in

India, it will become the gold standard by

which qualified AV professionals are

disnguished.”

AVIXA, already has two significant iniaves

in place in India- with BECIL (Broadcast

Engineering Consultants India Limited), and

Computer Society of India (CSI). Now, the

coming together of AVIXA and NABET stands

elevate the iniave further, and can be as

decisive as remodelling the cerfied talent

pool for a vastly expanding urban Indian

economy, parcularly with regard to the

Smart Cies Mission iniated by the

Government of India.

The ambious programme intends to build

100 Smart cies over the next decade across

the country, with a whopping allocaon of

$15 billion. That the programme involves a

huge scale of residenal, commercial and

infrastructural projects with many a smart

technology soluons, it stands create

oceanic opportunies, if not demand for

audio-visual industry contribuon. That

apart, upgrades, and steady growth within

India's TV and film sectors all serve to

reinforce the overall beneficial effect the

Indian economy is having on the AV sector.

According to AVIXA's Industry Outlook and

Trends Analysis (IOTA), the Indian economy

grew by 7 per cent in 2016 and is likely to

maintain a yearly growth rate of more than

7 per cent through 2019.

Kuldip Kamat, Managing Director of AllWave

AV Systems, and member of AVIXA's India

Advisory Group observes: The Indian AV

market is poised to grow very well over the

next decade in various technology

applicaons around unified collaboraon

and entertainment; the need for a young,

vibrant workforce with credenals has never

been higher. “The ones who

skill and re-skill themselves

with an eye on the future

will walk away with the

rewards,” says Kuldip.

“NABET recognion will

QCI Secretary General Dr. Ravi P. Singh handing the accreditaon

document over to AVIXA Gaurab Majumdar, Regional Director-IMEA