VSAT link
for skill development to job seekers unveiled
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 09:43:40 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore:
Leading vocational training provider Indian Institute of Job
Training (IIJT) Tuesday unveiled a countrywide VSAT (very small
aperture terminal) facility to enable last mile access to
employability enhancement training.
“The two-way satellite ground station (VSAT) will enable us to
give quality career skills training to all candidates, including
those in remote locations where access to quality faculty,
infrastructure and exposure to industry professionals is limited,”
IIJT chief executive Ashish Prasad told reporters here.
The facility is set up in partnership with the country’s largest
staffing solutions firm TeamLease Services to enhance career
skills by taking training and industry insight to job seekers.
The institute plans to have VSAT link at 250 centres across the
country by December from 25 centres currently through its
partners.
“We are also setting up VSAT classrooms in employment exchanges
operated by TeamLease with state governments in Gujarat,
Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Rajasthan on public-private
partnership (PPP) mode.
TeamLease set up the country’s first PPP-based employment exchange
— the Karnataka Employment Centre (KEC) — with the state
government in July to deliver services covering registration,
assessment, counselling, training, certification and placement.
“This satellite training represents an important move in making
geography history. The speed limit to quantity and quality in our
vocational training across 4,000 towns and 600,000 villages is
qualified trainers,” TeamLease chairman Manish Sabharwal said on
the occasion.
Stressing on the need to fix the people supply chain to prevent
what could turn out to be a demographic disaster due to lack of
right skills amongst the workforce, Sabharwal said the TeamLease
National Employment Framework (TNEF) would look at jobs across
various industries, their descriptions and associated functions to
build profiles of about 15,000 candidates.
“Non-availability of quality faculty across the country
particularly for advanced modules is one of the reasons for
investing into satellite technology. At least 25 percent of our
career courses will be taught from the studio,” Prasad noted.
The institute is also launching a series of career seminars by
real-life professionals from across various industries for the
benefit of job seekers and students, many of whom make their
career decisions without research, role models or active
discussions.
With about 90 percent of employment in the informal sector, these
seminars create a unique opportunity for interaction with formal
sector professionals for students across the country.
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