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Bangalore: NIIT will be taking care of the infrastructure and administration of CAT, the common entrance test to Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), the country's premium
business schools, which is being taken on computers for the first time this year, reports Economic Times.
The test will be held in around 200 private colleges across the country. An NIIT spokesman confirmed that the company has bagged a deal from U.S.-based Prometric, the
world's largest computer-based testing service provider that is conducting the Common Admission Test (CAT) of IIMs, for providing test centres across the country.
Although he refused to give financial details, a company executive said that NIIT will get Rs.50-55 crore from Prometric, which bagged a $40 million deal from IIMs to conduct
what will be the largest computer based test in India so far with more than three lakh students expected to take part. The CAT will be held in two sessions each day for 10
days, between November 28 and December 7. Online registration for the test begins on September 9. NIIT had last month started tying up with private colleges having at
least 100-computers each for conducting the test.
As part of the deal, the colleges will be paid an average rent of Rs.60 per student, depending on the infrastructure they provide. Tight security check will include close-circuit
television (CCTV) cameras to record all the movements of every applicant, matching fingerprints, metal detectors and photo identification check.
Three private colleges in Chandigarh, including Indo-Global College, which has the largest computer centre in Punjab, have been roped in by NIIT. While colleges will take
care of computers, internet, image capture cameras, generators and UPS, NIIT will provide identity cards, biometric equipment and stationery.
Every room at the testing centre will have a maximum of 50 computers. There will be monitor separators to ensure no candidate can view anybody else's computer screen
and the personnel deployed by the college during the test would be pre-verified by NIIT. IIMs are scheduled to release the official list of test centres by September 9.