Microsoft to set up teacher training centre in India

Chairman of Microsoft India, Ravi Venkatesan, met local dignitaries in Tamil Nadu, including chief minister Jayalalithaa to announce the plan.

Chief minister Jayalalithaa, an ex-movie star, said she welcomed the proposal, hoping that it would help to ensure "IT education is made even more popular in schools in Tamil Nadu," a government statement said she said.

Microsoft said it was committed to producing versions of Windows in the Tamil language and was keen to help make sure PCs were made affordable in India. It reckoned that producing software in the local language would help give schoolchildren access to the wonderful world of technology.

The government runs a programme named Rural Access to Services through Internet (RASI) through which it seks to bring internet access to impoverished rural Areas south of Chennai, (formerly Madras). µ