Calcutta, June 15 :    Calcutta, June 15:  Princeton-based software services company Optimal Software Inc. has lined up ambitious expansion plans in Calcutta. Optimal Computing Pvt. Ltd. (OCPL), the wholly-owned Indian subsidiary, is coming up with its own training and development centre in Salt Lake. 'We launched our medical transcription unit in Calcutta in1995. But lack of quality manpower thwarted our growth prospects and we had to incur huge expenses in retraining our people,' said Dr Govind Shah, CEO of the company, at a press meet on Friday. According to the Princeton-based NRI, the OCPL-promoted training centre will serve the purpose of a 'finishing school' for aspiring medical transcriptionists in eastern India. It will also 'play a small part' in solving the unemployment problem here, he added. The Salt Lake-based institute, inaugurated on Friday by state IT minister Manab Mukherjee, will run two-month, full-time training programmes for experienced medical transcriptionists. Initially, 80 students with at least 100 hours of medical transcription experience will be selected for the programme. And once they finish the course, they will be recruited in OCPL. 'India has a very small share of the $ 7-billion medical transcription market. Given the cost advantage and availability of quality manpower, the growth prospects seem very high. Every year, we will employ 350 to 400 medical transcriptionists,' Shah said. Students logging on to the programme will have to pay Rs 5,000 at the time of admission. The remaining Rs 15,000 of the course fee will be adjusted from their salaries over a period of 12 to 18 months.