New Delhi, Dec 10, 2014:A flexi-MoU was signed between Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India & Apparel Training & Development Centre (ATDC), in Gurgaon today. The MoU was signed between Shri. Alok Kumar, Director General, Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGE&T) and Dr. Darlie Koshy, Director General/ CEO, ATDC. ATDC under the aegis of Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has emerged as India’s Largest Vocational Training Network for the Apparel Sector with around 175 ATDCs including 65 ATDC Vocational Institutes and over 135 ATDC- SMART Centres and Skill Camps present in major Apparel clusters spread across 22 states & 85 cities Pan India.
The overall objective of the MoU is to provide for a framework whereby ATDC can run employment oriented training to the youth on National Level. The MoU will allow ATDC to run customized courses in association with large apparel export houses and leading domestic manufacturers which shall also be approved by National Council of Vocational Training (NCVT), will facilitate the candidates to get NCVT certificates.
The MOU will help in three ways, firstly, it will cut short many impediments in nationwide implementation of the skill based programs. Secondly, it will focus on changing technology being incorporated in courses and lastly more focus on longer duration program with support of DGE&T by tuning with industry inputs. ATDC will get freedom in developing such courses wherein theory portion of the courses can be taught in the training centre and practical in the industry .
Special feature of the MoU is that ATDC will ensure employment of 80% of the candidates in a batch. DGE&T has already entered into such MOUs with Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and TATA Motors in Automobile Sector, Labournet in Construction sector, Raymond in Textile Sector, Cadila in Instrument Mechanic sector, Gujarat Industries Power Company Ltd in Power Sector. This MOU will compliment DGET and ATDC capabilities to reach and achieve a common goal of skilling India.CCI Newswire
