Godrej Properties takes the initiative to impart skill training to the youth
Godrej Properties in association with LabourNet has launched a program at the Anandam project in Nagpur to impart vocational training to improve the skill sets of the construction labourers. This vocational training aims at improving their skill sets and helps them to learn the tricks of the trade in a more systematic and technical way.
Gayathri Vasudevan the CEO of LabourNet Services stated that there is an urgent need for vocationalisation of education. LabourNet Services works with the country’s large informal workforce to improve their skills and makes them industry ready. It is the need of the hour that the youth of the country along with the theory subjects should also learn some skills which will help them to earn their living.
In partnership with the Haryana Government, National Skill Development Corporation and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd, LabourNet has conducted vocational education in 130 schools in 20 districts of Haryana.
It is expected that there should be more of such workshops organised in different parts of the country, and it will help the youth to hone their vocational skills. India has a huge young workforce; however the skill levels are very low. Very few people get an opportunity to join some vocational training program and end up being construction labourers without any training or knowledge. This keeps the learning curve slow and the chances of accidents and mishaps increase at the workplace as the workers are not trained to handle the equipment and machinery in these locations.
We must give a lot of kudos to these organisations and urge the government to promote similar training programs in the rest of India too.
Source- The Hindu Business Line
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