Sri Lanka's Information and Communications Technology Agency (ICTA) this week opened registration for the fourth round of its Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) training grant programme offering domestically registered BPO companies US$ 225 (around Rs. 2,000) for each worker of theirs that they train.
Further, each BPO company is limited to a training grant cap of US$50,000 or approximately 222 trainees for this round. It has also been suggested that this will offer more resources for smaller, local BPO operations to ramp up their operations.
Launched two years, round one through three of this programme has already resulted in the training of 130 people,
with the latest round being completed just last year. However, increased interest in the BPO industry, as witnessed by ICTA, has resulted in more requests for BPO training grants; prompting the organisation's decision to stage a new round now, its fourth, which hopes to elicit at least 100 trainees. |
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