Srinagar, July 12: Taking cue from the central government’s suggestions on making the government employees/officials IT literate, the state has started the Course of Computer Concepts (CCC) at DOEACC Rangreth, the nationally recognized centre scheduled to train around 5000 aspirants in the first phase.
 At-least 2900 government employees from various government agencies will under go CCC, a “benchmark for IT literacy in the country".
 Sources said 300 of them will be from Civil Secretariat, 400 from Directorate level and 100 each from various districts.
 Besides, the DOEACC Rangreth will train around 2500 youth sponsored by the state police under their civil action plan. The training program, the DOEACC Rangreth Director, AH Moon said spans over 36 hours.
 “Its basically a capsule course where office productive tools with exposure to database and internet are taught,” Moon said adding that the training follows by an online exam for the “nationally acclaimed certification”.
 “This course is for anyone who wants to be IT literate. Anyone with an aptitude for computers can do the course.”
 For the online exam, the Rangreth centre has established a state-of-the art “prometric lab” where the aspirants can get  themselves registered for the online exam, held at weekends.
 “We plan to make online examination a daily feature and even open examination centres at district and block level,” the DOEACC Rangreth officials said.
 Sources said the central government’s Department of Information Technology had issued a circular to various IT Secretaries in the state governments to implement the CCC.
 In a run up to that the DOEACC Rangreth submitted a proposal before the government and the same was considered

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