An industrial manufacturing — Innovation, Incubation and Skill Development Centre (IISDC) would be set up in Punjab’s all the three smart cities on Hub and Spoke Model, that is one Hub at Ludhiana and one Spoke each at Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar smart cities.
For the same, an agreement was signed on Friday between the Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Company (PMIDC), Punjab Local Government Department and Tata Technologies Limited (TTL) in the presence of the state Local Government Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Airing his views on the occasion, Sidhu said that IISDC will be setup as one-stop center for providing integrated training on technical and skill development.
“This endeavour will help in providing ready local pool of engineers, operators, technicians and skilled human resources required by the industries in the field of manufacturing sector and to increase the employability of the population of Punjab, especially the youth,” he said.
The Minister also elaborated that the high-end industrial training will increase chances of good quality jobs and upgrade course curriculum in sync with the modern industrial practices and would further help innovators to develop new products and will promote technology start-ups.
The learning methodology will include classroom and lab sessions, online videos, e-learning, assessments and joint certifications at the IISDC, he said adding that there will be joint supervision of students in IISDCs, special lectures and seminars by the industrial experts.
Sidhu said that the TTL and industry partners would extend support to provide job opportunities to all eligible trained students.
“TTL shall contribute approximately Rs 552 crore, which is 88 percent of the total cost, for establishing these IISDCs in all the three cities and they would also be providing training for three years without any charges, and during this period, local trainers would also be trained,” he said.
The state Principal Secretary (Local Government) A Venu Prasad said that the target students at Hub (Ludhiana) shall be existing engineering students, engineering and diploma students who have passed out and employed engineering graduates — to enhance their technical capabilities.
The targeted students at Spoke (Ludhiana, Amritsar, and Jalandhar) shall be — X and XII pass out, existing engineering polytechnic students, existing ITI students, and the unemployed Diploma and ITI holders who have passed out, he added.
Local Government director Karnesh Sharma said that the targeted industry at Ludhiana would be bicycles and bicycle parts, automobile parts, hosiery goods, sewing machine and parts, home appliances, machine tools, readymade garments, hosiery needles, rubber goods, labels (metal and cotton), chemical goods, oil engines, agricultural implements, electronic goods, tractor parts, cycle tyres or tubes, plastic goods, etc.
PMIDC CEO Ajoy Sharma added that those at Amritsar would be manufacturing, retail trade, service activates, capital goods, IT and ITeS, repair and servicing of motor vehicles, motor cycles or scooters, household goods, workshops, dyeing and hosiery, mechanical products, electrical machinery and apparatus, machinery and parts, while those at Jalandhar would be sports goods, repair and servicing of motor vehicles, motor cycles or scooters, household goods, workshops, recycling, machinery and equipments, electrical machinery and apparatus, motor vehicles trailers etc and parts, computer and related activities.