If the profusion of billboards in this small pocket of Hyderabad had been neon-lit, Ameerpet would have looked like a mini Las Vegas. For Sudha Rani, this three-square-km neighbourhood that packs in hundreds of IT institutes and over one lakh students, signifies a last-ditch attempt to start a software career. The 24-year-old has an MCA degree from Andhra Pradesh’s Kakatiya University, but that wasn’t good enough to win her a job. Back home in Warangal, her mother and two sisters are desperately hoping she will get a break. That’s why Sudha has landed in Ameerpet.
Students come here to learn a host of software programmes at a fraction of the cost they would pay to study at a reputed institute. “My whole class is learning Java, so I am doing it too,” says Sudha, adding, in halting, broken English: “What to do? College did not teach anything. I just want a job, any job. But should be IT.”Ameerpet picked up on the desperation of thousands of students like Sudha when, almost a decade ago, it morphed from a quiet, residential neighbourhood into a renegade IT hub. Every crumbling building here seems to be crammed with institutes offering courses in SAP, Java, Oracle, C, C++ and a host of others. The training institutes range from a hole-in-the-wall place to large sheds converted into classrooms that pack in a few hundred students. There is at least one new institute springing up every day, but most are low on credibility and use unauthorised software.more at economictimes
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