Samsung, India’s largest consumer electronics brand, today reinforced its commitment to developing future-ready talent in West Bengal by felicitating 750 students under its flagship Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) programme at Brainware University, Kolkata.

As part of Samsung’s mission to skill 20,000 youth across India in 2025, the latest batch includes 400 graduates in AI Coding & Programming and 350 in Artificial Intelligence (AI)—equipping young aspirants with industry-relevant digital capabilities that will drive India’s technology future.

The ceremony was graced by Prof. Sankar Gangopadhyay, Vice Chancellor, Brainware University, and Mr. Saroj Aapto, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Electronics Sector Skills Council of India (ESSCI), along with Samsung leadership and faculty members.

West Bengal Emerging as a Tech-Talent Growth Hub

West Bengal has a rich legacy in engineering and science, and the state is rapidly nurturing a thriving digital economy. Samsung’s skilling initiatives aim to strengthen the region’s talent pool and expand workforce readiness in high-demand technologies.

Expanding Access and Opportunity

Samsung Innovation Campus offers training in Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Coding & Programming, aligning closely with the Government of India’s Skill India and Digital India missions.

The programme emphasises inclusivity—with 44% women participation nationally—and strong outreach to aspirational districts and semi-urban areas, ensuring youth from diverse backgrounds can access opportunities in the digital age.

A Larger Mission for Aatmanirbhar Bharat

With events now conducted across 10 states, including recent felicitation in Gorakhpur, the SIC programme is rapidly building a future-skilled workforce in partnership with accredited training organisation ESSCI, ensuring:

• Industry-aligned learning
• Soft-skills development
• Career guidance and placement support

Alongside SIC, Samsung’s DOST (Digital & Offline Skills Training) programme continues to help youth secure frontline retail careers—strengthening employability, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Every year, a large number of Durga idols are shipped to Pandals around the world for Pujo celebrations.

It takes the artistry and hard work of thousands of clay artists to give form to awe inspiring idols.

Samsung Newsroom India travelled to Kolkata to capture the creativity, innovations and spirit of artisans who help make Pujo a really grand celebration for billions of people around the world.

We shot the mood in Kolkata’s Kumartoli with Galaxy Note10+.

Out of 23 Samsung Technical Schools currently operational in India, four are in West Bengal at ITI Gariahat (including Women’s Gariahat), ITI Howrah, ITI Kalyani and Women ITI Burdwan.

Ms. Roshini Sen, IAS, Principal Secretary, Industrial Training, Technical Education, Training & Skill Development Department and Mr. Deepak Bhardwaj, Vice President, Samsung India during the MoU signing ceremony.

The MoU renewal was inked between Mr. Deepak Bhardwaj, Vice President, Samsung India and Ms. Roshini Sen, IAS, Principal Secretary, Industrial Training, Technical Education, Training & Skill Development Department in the presence of Chief Minister of West Bengal, Smt. Mamta Banerjee, Mr. Amit Mitra, Minister of Finance, Commerce & Industries and other senior government officials at last week’s Bengal Global Business Summit 2018 in Kolkata.

Through the renewal of this agreement, Samsung India also strengthened its commitment to the government’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign. Samsung introduced an initiative for 1,000 scholarships for women and differently-abled students. This will help augment the number of girls and differently-abled trainees at the schools and would increase the number of women in India’s technical workforce. 

Samsung Technical School, which is a part of Samsung’s citizenship initiative, was started in 2013 and aims to support the government’s vision to make India a global manufacturing hub by addressing the need for talented manpower with practical know-how and relevant industry experience. These schools have so far trained over 2,000 youth and made them job-ready across different technical trades. Around 70% of these students have got jobs, 45% of them with Samsung service centres. The initiative is part of Samsung’s ‘Make for India’ initiative and contributes to the government’s Skill India mission.

Festivity is in the air with Durga Puja around the corner. To add to the festive cheer, Samsung, India’s number one mobile phone company and the country’s most trusted brand, has launched its ‘Never Mind’ offer that gives consumers a one-time screen replacement benefit within 12 months of purchasing their Samsung smartphone by paying INR 990 at the time of repair.

Mohandeep Singh, Senior Vice President, Mobile Business, Samsung India unveiling the Durga Puja offer in Kolkata

Samsung “Never Mind” offer brings peace of mind to consumers and extends across popular models above INR 9,000. This includes Samsung Galaxy J Series, A Series, and flagship S and Note Series. Along with West Bengal, the offer is applicable in Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal, Nagaland & Orissa. The offer is valid on purchases between September 1, 2017 to September 30, 2017.

Samsung has also come up with attractive price offers across several smartphone categories to add to the festivity cheer. To increases the affordability of India’s most loved smartphones, Samsung has also tied up with select partners to offer triple zero offer, which enables consumers to buy select Samsung smartphone for zero down payment, zero processing fee and zero interest on EMIs.

The Durga Puja offer comes days after Samsung launched the Onam ‘Twin Win’ offer for its consumers in Kerala. Like the southern state of Kerala, Samsung is market leader in West Bengal too.

Samsung’s Galaxy J series is India’s most popular smartphone series and the recently launched Galaxy J7 Pro and Galaxy J7 Max have received an overwhelming response. Every third smartphone sold in India today is a Galaxy J. In West Bengal, where Samsung enjoys over 40% market share, Galaxy Js are even more popular.

“Our focus on consumer-centric innovations and providing superior products and services to consumers have made Samsung India’s top brand. The ‘Never Mind’ offer is our way of thanking the people of West Bengal for their love and trust. Samsung has always believed in creating value for consumers through innovative features and the latest offer bears testimony to Samsung’s commitment to consumer delight,” said Mr. Mohandeep Singh, Senior Vice President, Mobile Business, Samsung India.

“Our exciting new J series of smartphones backed by Make for India innovations have helped us strengthen our leadership in West Bengal. We also have an extensive service network, along with 535 mobile service vans across India, to cater to our growing number of consumers,” he added.

The recently launched Galaxy J7 Pro and Galaxy J7 Max come with new features that consumers have really come to appreciate. Features like Social Camera, out of the box Android Nougat and Samsung Pay have increased the appeal of Galaxy J.

Samsung plans to execute the festive bonanza via its wide retail network of more than 12,000 partner stores, 93 exclusive stores and 102 service centers across the state of West Bengal.

Features of Samsung Galaxy J smartphones:

Samsung Pay: Samsung’s disruptive payments platform – Samsung Pay – is revolutionizing the way people carry out their day-to-day payments & transactions. Samsung Pay allows Samsung smartphone users to simply tap and pay with their phones without needing to carry the physical card. Under ‘Make for India’ innovations, Samsung has also integrated mobile wallets like Paytm and MobiKwik along with the government’s Unified Payments Interface in the Samsung Pay platform.

Social Camera: Both Galaxy J7 Max & Galaxy J7 Pro smartphones come with Social Camera, our latest innovation which brings to the consumers a new way of using their smartphone camera by instant sharing, instant editing and instant discovery.

Make for India innovations: Galaxy J series has also been a flagbearer of Samsung’s commitment to Indian consumers. The J series’ ‘Make for India’ innovations such as Ultra Data Saving Mode, S bike mode and S Power Planning have added immense value to Galaxy J smartphone users.