Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) and Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) have partnered with Microsoft and NASSCOM under the recently launched ‘March to Million’ initiative. Under the partnership, Microsoft and NASSCOM will skill around 30,000 youths from Telangana in artificial intelligence (AI).

The March to Million initiative was launched on November 12, 2020, and aims at skilling one million youths in AI by 2021

According to Shrikant Sinha, chief executive officer (CEO) of Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK), the course will be a combination of self-learning modules, hands-on workshops, live demos and virtual instructor-led classes by experts from Microsoft and NASSCOM, followed by an assignment and finally certification from Microsoft and NASSCOM. The course is open to students of all streams.

To this end, the AI classroom series course which will introduce students to the concepts of AI, machine learning, and data science will commence from November 23, 2020.