NIS Sparta, the management consultancy arm of Reliance Industries, will use the Reliance Webworlds across the country as its training and testing centres.

"The certification courses will be made online and the learners can register in the Webworlds and take the online training and tests to obtain certificates," Sanjeev Duggal, MD and CEO of NIS Sparta, said.

"This will help us in tapping more learners who cannot take the regular courses. The learner base of the insurance training module, which is one of our main programmes, is expected to go up by 100,000 and even the other courses will become more accessible to the people in smaller towns," Duggal said.

NIS Sparta is also launching a training programme for nearly 200,000 cable operators in the country. The programme will be more visual and in vernacular languages.

"We are focusing more on the visual technologies for better understanding and we will encourage more self-learning to reduce the time required," he said.

The company is investing around Rs 10 crore (Rs 100 million) to acquire nearly 2,500 softwares for training and development and is likely to introduce more such programmes for service providers like sales persons, customer care, retailing, telecom and call centre, in the coming months.

Duggal said most companies were now looking at penetrating the smaller markets and are changing the workforce training requirements keeping in mind the new focus.