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Vocational training for 1 mn Indians with Swiss help
Wednesday November 09, 2011 09:35:06 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Switzerland
will help the Indian government and corporate sector run a joint
programme to provide vocational training to one million Indians by
2022, the Swiss embassy said Monday.
Announcing the successful completion of a pilot programme of
giving industry-oriented skill training to locals in Karnataka,
Maharashtra and Gujarat, the embassy said that the programme will
now be extended to other states.
The pilot programme picked up apprentices from local Industrial
Training Institutes (ITIs) and attached them with industries to
provide vocational on-job training.
"The approach that is used is to deliver the skill training is
structured on the Swiss model and envisages a three-way
partnership between company (which has hired the apprentice), the
local ITI, and the project office," Franz Probst, project head
from the Swiss Skills Vocational Education and Training
Initiative, said.
The apprentices are provided three to four days practical training
in the industry he is attached to, and one or two day of theory
classes.
So far, 150 youth are enrolled with the programme. The training
includes on job skills, vocational skill as well as training in
soft skills. Upon completion of the training the apprentices are
given a diploma which is endorsed by Swiss vocational training
organisation Swissmem.
G.P. Chandra Kumar from Skillsonics, an Indian firm assisting in
the programme, said the focus is also on introducing new models of
training, which may include a three-year programme after class 10.
"The students will be taken for a three year programme after class
10. They will be given a diploma, and it will have great value in
the industry," Chandra Kumar said.
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