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Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd has recently launched the Academic Developer Programme (ADP) in India. The programme is aimed at empowering universities, faculty members and students with the necessary skills, resources, training and real life experience, to leverage the emerging XML Web Services revolution.
According to Dilip Mistry, director .NET & Developer Evangelism, Microsoft, "Academic Developer Programme is an umbrella programme of Microsoft.India needs to produce graduates with skill-set, which can enable them to move up in the value chain. We are working with different technical institutions and this kind of programme is required to reduce the gap between the industry and the academia."
ADP has introduced eight key initiatives under this programm. Mistry said: "In faculty internship, we are offering sponsorship to PG students to stay on as a faculty member, making teaching financially more viable."
Under the Microsoft .NET Campus Challenge, students across India are invited to participate in building real-life projects identified by corporate houses on .NET. "It will further include conducting technical seminars, delivered by the representatives of the industry," he added. The MSDN Academic Alliance will cover the entire campus. "
Some of the modules of ADP are currently being implemented at Anna University, Chennai covering its 240 affiliated colleges and Visveswaraiah Technological University in Karnataka, covering 102 college affiliated to the university.