To financially empower 15,000 women across India, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has signed an MoU with Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB).
The project aims to train women of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu, Bihar, North East, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in retail programmes.
“The project aims to train the women in the community and show them a path to economic empowerment through training in retail programmes. It also helps to create entrepreneurial opportunities,” said Dilip Chenoy, Managing Director, NSDC.
Chenoy and Executive Director, legal & Company Secretary, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Shukla Wassan on Wednesday signed the MoU for a period of five years.
“The fact that big corporations like Hindustan Coca-Cola are coming forward and contributing to the skills landscape is great as it will help shape up and uplift the present stature of unskilled workforce,” said Chenoy.
“The project completely focuses on employability and economic upliftment of the underserved section of the society. This project will help equip them with skills to enhance their employability and find jobs of their choice or ways of self-employment,” he said.
“The project will operate under two models: community skill building, which will impart skill based training for enhancing self-employability and entrepreneurship among youth in the areas of Carpentry, Mobile Repairing, Tailoring, Horticulture, Beauty Services, Cutting/Tailoring, Construction, and Electrician. “This will be based on skill gaps, in addition to digital literacy, IT and personality development courses,” Wassan said.
“The second model, Pragati, will enable in economic empowerment of approximately 15,000 women and create earning opportunities for them through customised training in retail programsme,” she said.