Taking a step further in skilling the youth of Bihar, Bihar Skill Development Mission (BSDM) has started a unique effort — Recruit-Train and Deploy (RTD) model, to effectively help in skill training of the youth. A dedicated event last week in the national Capital region saw the participation of more than 10 Sector Skill Councils (SSC) ie textile, tourism, hospitality, electronics, domestic, media and film.
Speaking at the event, BSDM CEO Dipak Kumar Singh, IAS, said that BSDM would ensure the quality of the industry partners entering the scheme and as the industry partner would be granting post training placements.
“Therefore RTD is specifically designed to help industry train candidates’ specific to their requirements. This will be highly beneficial to industry partners as they would be saving critical costs and time in training candidate on firms’ specific skills,” Singh, who is also the principal secretary, labour resources department, Bihar Government.
He highlighted the specific characteristics of RTD model that will give industry the flexibility in training candidates to their specific requirements. Present on the occasion were BSDM project director Amit Kumar Pandey; Mission director Sanjay Singh, and Mission Manager Ashok Kumar Singh.
leading stakeholders including corporates such as representatives from NSDC, Sector Skill Councils, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, IBM, GE, CREDAI, TCS, HCl, Apollo Medicals, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, ICICI Foundation, ASMAC, etc attended the programme. Most of the SSCs welcomed the RTD model especially the flexibility to industry partners in exercising the training and the modularity it provides in trained workers on the job.