NIIT gained on Thursday after the company bagged a three-year contract to provide managed training services to Vestas Wind Systems A/S, a leading global wind energy company headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

With this contract, NIIT's corporate learning group will provide learning administration, strategic sourcing, custom content development and LMS services to Vestas for a period of three years.

"We are very proud to have been awarded this contract by Vestas. We are committed to helping our customers run training like a business with our best-in-class managed training services. Our team is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of training at Vestas while providing the best sourcing," said Sapnesh Lalla, president, NIIT Corporate Learning Group.

Shares of the company gained Rs 0.90, or 1.98%, to trade at Rs 46.25 at the BSE (Thursday). The scrip has touched an intra-day high of Rs 47.50 and low of Rs 45. The total volume of shares traded at the BSE is 341,215.