Wipro rises on collaborating with NASSCOM to launch FutureSkills platform

Wipro is currently trading at Rs. 253.00, up by 1.40 points or 0.56% from its previous closing of Rs. 251.60 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 252.55 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 254.25 and Rs. 251.70 respectively. So far 71823 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 2 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 301.55 on 14-Jun-2019 and a 52 week low of Rs. 231.68 on 21-Dec-2018.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 254.25 and Rs. 242.80 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 144653.73 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 74.05%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 15.32% and 8.19% respectively.

Wipro has partnered with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) to launch the FutureSkills platform for 10,000 students from over 20 engineering colleges in India. This is a part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme, TalentNext which aims to enhance the quality of engineering education by preparing faculty and academic leaders to train students.

The programme has now been extended to students directly through FutureSkills, which is a new age platform built to bridge the industry-academia skill gap and help students keep pace with the emerging technologies - Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT) - to make them future-ready.

Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services. The company harnesses the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and emerging technologies to help clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful.

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