Mumbai, April 11 (PTI): NIIT Ltd is to concentrate on its online educational initiatives as it expects the rollout of broadband in the country to facilitate its growth, even as the company is planning for a co-branding of curriculum.

“We think it is the right time to enhance our presence in the e-learning space,” NIIT chief operating officer Vijay K. Thadani said in New Delhi.

The thrust is to provide a blended e-learning model, which would be a mixture of both online and offline modules, he said, adding NIIT would concentrate on an “industry-endorsed curriculum”.

Quoting a Nasscom study, he said India would need six million software professionals by 2010 and added that e-learning would be the ideal vehicle to impart education.