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Taj Group to train underprivileged rural youth
in Maharashtra
Friday April 19, 2013 07:45:11 PM,
IANS
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Lonavala
(Maharashtra): Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Friday
inaugurated an Indian Hotel Co. Ltd. (IHCL) facility here which
will impart vocational training to around 1,000 underprivileged
youths from rural areas.
The facility is housed in the state government's Industrial
Training Institute (ITI) campus in this hill-station and will
provide skilled work force to industrial units in and around
Lonavala, Kanhe, Talegaon and Dabhade areas of Pune district.
The youths will be trained to develop cookery, bakery, steward
skills and other technical skills through short-term courses of
three to six months duration.
The facility will train around 1,000 youths from the surrounding
rural areas in the first year of its operations, and then the
capacity will be increased to train about 5,000 youths per annum.
"We are proud to partner with the Taj Group and provide the
underprivileged youth in the state an opportunity to develop
necessary skills sets for employment in the hospitality sector. It
is a noble step by a brand synonymous with Indian hospitality to
give back to the society," Chavan said at the inaugural ceremony.
IHCL's managing director and chief executive Raymond Bickson said
it would be the company's endeavour to facilitate access to the
less-privileged, school dropouts and youths in backward areas to
work opportunities in the hospitality industry.
Experts from several Tata Group companies like Tata Housing, Croma
Retail and Voltas will help the candidates develop vocational
skills as part of the group's corporate social responsibility.
The Taj Group currently has over 36 skill training centres in
India in partnership with government, foundations, national NGOs
and has trained 9,000 youths since 2009.
The ITI Lonavala, established in 1978, has achieved a milestone by
setting up a Centre of Excellence for Hospitality Skill Training
with partners like World Bank, Maharashtra government and Taj
Group of Hotels.
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