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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

HE Institute for Development and Research

Tin Banking Technology (IDRBT) was
established by Reserve Bank of India for
promoting research and development in
BankingTechnology.

As part of its initiatives towards building human
resources skills required by the banking and
financial services industry, IDRBT is offering
The admissions to the course is through CAT
the Post Graduate Diploma in Banking
and similar examinationsfollowed by a rigorous
Technology (PGDBT), a full-time regular one
selection process in the form of group
year programme, which provides all essential
discussions and interviews. The selected
inputs on technology implementation,
students are provided the required exposure by
integrationandmanagement.
IDRBT faculty and external experts so as to
I am very happy to share that the first batch of enable them to be “contribution-ready” in the
PGDBT students have achieved 100% fieldofbankingandinformationtechnology.
placements in well known Banking and
I am confident that the recruiting organizations
Financialorganisations.
will derive good benefit by engaging these well-
The syllabus of the PGDBT includes important trainedstudents.
topics like Information Security, Computer
I welcome banks, financial institutions, and IT
Networks, Business Analytics, Applications
companies to recruit students of this unique
Development, Cloud Computing, e-commerce
intensiveprogrammeofIDRBT.
and Payment Systems. The final term is devoted
to a hands-on project,carried out at one of the
financial institutions/banks and this project
exposes the students to real world challenges
ofthesector.

(Dr. A. S. Ramasastri)

Director, IDRBT