with the it recession several computer institutes are not only managing to survive but are steadily growing as well iec softwares is one such organisation iec a global software company engaged in software development training consultancy and total it solutions is one of the earliest established computer education service division in india since 1981 iec has come a long way with 300 it education centres all over india presently it is offering highend training courses in java ecom web net c under its programme eleader and has one lakh students studying at its various centres recently it bagged a contract from the municipal corporation delhi for providing it training to its 300 employees s l gupta chairman iec says iec perhaps has the largest number of government contracts for providing it education we are recognised by the doeacc for providing training for its o and a level courses we are empanelled by the ignou for conducting its bca and mca courses at certain centres we are providing corporate training for bureau of indian standards and ifco about the other ventures of iec gupta says we have a threeyear contract with government of madhya pradesh for providing training in schools and colleges under turnkey project under this project we provide complete infrastructure including hardware software and faculty this is contract of rs 250 crore we have a similar kind of tieup with the rajasthan government for its 56 colleges and a fouryear contract with delhi government for 26 schools iec has tieups with ministry of hrd ministry of personal welfare and ministry of defence and with universities like br ambedkar university at agra and kumaon university he adds gupta saysour major focus is on it training we have a research and development centre which undertakes market research and survey we offer courses based on the specific requirement of an industry as well iec offers live projects to his students on hospital management school management franchise management and invoice generation system the longterm courses of iec include a module on personality development to groom the overall personality of a student says gupta iec is a global player it has ties with ugosoft inc us polservice poland xinu sdn bhd malaysia sunway college malaysia and malaysian grand school of management besides host of others our vision is to make iec a world class company we are planning to set up franchise centres in china and west asia we are negotiating a tieup with 3com a global network company in the field of network education says gupta