Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is committed to its mission of ‘Making India the skills Capital of the World’. As a part of this mission, CII started its skilling initiative in Chhindwara to train rural youth and make them employable. A new centre was also inaugurated in 2012 in Imlikheda village.
The centre has its full-fledged campus, training facility along with the hostel facility for students. The CII initiative in Chhindwara is ‘one-of-its kind’, conceptualised and driven by industry, aimed at creating talent pool of trained manpower for industry.
There are 8 companies on board. The companies are — Cummins India ltd, GMMCO ltd, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation, JCB India ltd, larsen & Toubro ltd, Mahindra & Mahindra ltd, Shapoorji Pallonji & Co ltd and Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private limited. Till date, 838 candidates have been registered, 482 got trained, 300 got employment and 56 are undergoing training in various trades. The centre is registering new candidates for various courses with minimum criteria of Class 5th pass out.
CII has a tradition of conducting the work skills competition for the last 25 years. The competitions were conducted to motivate workers, to enable quality production eventually. S Mahalingam, chairman, CII National Committee on Skill Development (former CFO, TCS) and Rajeev Dubey, co-chairman, CII National Committee on Skill Development and president (Group HR Corporate Services and After-Market) and member of the group executive board have led a 21 member business delegation to the 42nd World Skills Competition in leipzig, Germany from July 2 to 6, 2013.