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Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufacturer's Association

Skill Development

AIEMA has been providing Industrial & Human Resources related training programs to our member units for over 12 years for upgrading the skills of both the employees and the Management in member units. Apart from this, we have always felt the larger need to find ways and means of ensuring reasonable availability of trained and readily employable workforce from the local population through a dedicated training facility of our own, to cater to the requirements of our member units. AIEMA Skill Development Centre (ASDC) – one of AIEMA’s initiatives has been striving hard to bridge the gap in the employability of youth from rural and urban areas in factories, by imparting training in specific trades and in soft skills useful to the industry. With the deficiencies in the formal conventional education framework as of now,

The Government alone cannot accomplish this task and it calls for a concerted effort of the Government, private players and NGOs to work in tandem to skilling the employable youth. AIEMA, in association with Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation (TNSDC), has been conducting free training courses for unemployed Rural Youth from the year 2014. So far, more than 1400 candidates have been trained in our facility, with a creditable placement record. With the experience gained, AIEMA has made great strides in developing the infrastructure required for training such as classrooms and labs and have up-scaled the capacity to mobilise and train candidates in larger projects from TNSDC. We have sought the assistance of the Director, Department of Employment & Training to allot more candidates for training at ASDC with a view to supplying as many trained candidates as possible to our member units.

Government of India through Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and the Directorate General of Training (DGT) is focused on Skill Development and is keen on promoting apprenticeship in MSME. DGT has initiated a project named STRIVE – “Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement” – a new World Bank funded project and has been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) of the Government. The project falls under the Program for Results (P4R) based category of World Bank that ensures outcome based funding. It aims at creating awareness through industry clusters that would address the challenge of involvement of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in giving apprenticeship training.

Government of India through Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and the Directorate General of Training (DGT) is focused on Skill Development and is keen on promoting apprenticeship in MSME. DGT has initiated a project named STRIVE – “Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement” – a new World Bank funded project and has been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) of the Government. The project falls under the Program for Results (P4R) based category of World Bank that ensures outcome based funding. It aims at creating awareness through industry clusters that would address the challenge of involvement of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in giving apprenticeship training.

The Project also aims at integrating and nhancing the delivery quality of the training institutions. Implementation of the STRIVE project by IEMA – the first Industry Cluster chosen from Tamil Nadu. To overcome the main drawback of the lack of own Basic Training facility normally faced by MSME, we have created a Common Basic Training centre in its premises for the benefit of member units to promote apprenticeship in CNC / VMC programming & operation, in addition to spacious class rooms and has opted for training programmes in the STRIVE oject. Our aim is to add more of specialized or need-based courses in the near future.