New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- Upskilling and higher education platform upGrad is scaling up its offline learning push with plans to increase 11 pilot centres it has to 40 by the end of the financial year, according to a top executive at the company.

In doing so, the effort is to focus on higher priced products ranging from Rs.80,000 to Rs.1.2 lakh, mostly focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning. These are short format curated courses meant specially for their offline centres.

"These are high involvement products where users are looking for counselling face to face to address their queries and concerns, as opposed to doing it online or on a video call," Manish Kalra chief operating officer for upGrad's offline business told Mint....