PUNE, January: The Western Regional Centre of the National Informatics Centre (NIC-WR), Pune, has successfully conducted its first sponsored training programme on Programming in COBOL for the office of the Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA). Employees of the CGDA, from all over the Country, attended this three-week training programme, informs a report from NIC-WR.
Throughout the training programme, quizzes were conducted regularly, and a test was taken on the final day. The performance of each participant was carefully graded by observing various components such as motivation, problem solving, programming skills, interaction with the faculty and ability to grasp new ideas.
Subsequently, a second commercial training programme was conducted on Computer Awareness, UNIX and SQL for the Accounts Officers of the group of ammunition factories controlled by the Controller of Accounts (FYS), Kirkee. At the end of the training programme, the participants were capable of writing simple shell programmes, concluded the report.