Maruti Suzuki unveils programme to train over 2100 youth in car service and repair
Maruti announced that it will scale up its skill development activities by setting up Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres.
By ET Bureau | Updated:
NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki India today announced on Tuesday that it will scale up its skill development activities by setting up Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres (ASEC) at 45 government-run Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country.
Each of these centres will be equipped with a model workshop to provide practical training. Together with this, the company will also appoint full-time trainers, provide tools and equipment and forge partnerships with local Maruti Suzuki service workshops to upgrade skills of ITI students and make them job-ready. This will be a corporate social responsibility project of the company. Maruti Suzuki has committed Rs 5 crore towards this cause.
Nearly 2,100 youth are expected to benefit annually through these ASECs. The trainees will be free to seek employment in any workshop, including those not servicing Maruti Suzuki vehicles.
The Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres are being set up in designated ITIs in Jammu, Srinagar, Patiala, Hoshiarpur, Yamuna Nagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Dehradun, Dewas, Durg, Jabalpur, Surat, Godhra, Ankleshwar, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Karimnagar Vijayawada, Kochi, , Calicut, Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram among others.
“Through this initiative, Maruti Suzuki wants to contribute to the national effort for skill development and employability. With the growth in number of vehicles on roads, quality repair and maintenance offers a major employment opportunity,” Pankaj Narula, executive director (service) at Maruti Suzuki said in a statement.
In addition to the ITI curriculum, the students will be given 50 days training by Maruti trainers in areas related to car service, repairs and maintenance. Students trained at the ASECs will be awarded an additional skill training certificate.
Each of these centres will be equipped with a model workshop to provide practical training. Together with this, the company will also appoint full-time trainers, provide tools and equipment and forge partnerships with local Maruti Suzuki service workshops to upgrade skills of ITI students and make them job-ready. This will be a corporate social responsibility project of the company. Maruti Suzuki has committed Rs 5 crore towards this cause.
Nearly 2,100 youth are expected to benefit annually through these ASECs. The trainees will be free to seek employment in any workshop, including those not servicing Maruti Suzuki vehicles.
The Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres are being set up in designated ITIs in Jammu, Srinagar, Patiala, Hoshiarpur, Yamuna Nagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Dehradun, Dewas, Durg, Jabalpur, Surat, Godhra, Ankleshwar, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Karimnagar Vijayawada, Kochi, , Calicut, Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram among others.
“Through this initiative, Maruti Suzuki wants to contribute to the national effort for skill development and employability. With the growth in number of vehicles on roads, quality repair and maintenance offers a major employment opportunity,” Pankaj Narula, executive director (service) at Maruti Suzuki said in a statement.
In addition to the ITI curriculum, the students will be given 50 days training by Maruti trainers in areas related to car service, repairs and maintenance. Students trained at the ASECs will be awarded an additional skill training certificate.
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In fact even after the debut of cars like the Honda Amaze and the more recently Hyundai Xcent and the Tata Zest coming in, it continues to be the best-selling car in its class. But it has been gradually falling behind especially considering the features that these new offerings are coming with and keeping that in mind, it was time for Maruti to give its entry-level sedan offering an update.
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