Anna University and BSNL (Tamil Nadu circle) has joined hands to impart training in mobile communication.

Vice Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar has announced that the university will spend Rs 2 crore for training 5,000 final year students in the state this year.

Among the 32,000 final year students of electronics and communication engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, computer science and engineering and information technology, 5,000 would be selected for the free training.

He said that a 5 day training programme is arranged for students which have three-day theory and two-day practical training. And apart from this the university has also planned for an additional two-day training programme in competence development.

He also said that the university has a plan to give the same training to students of electronics and communication engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, computer science and engineering and information technology of 152 engineering colleges coming under Anna University - Chennai alone.