New Delhi, July 20 (KNN) To provide skill training to students in rural areas, Toyota Kirloskar Motor signed an agreement with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC) on Tuesday.

ASDC under this partnership will identify the institute as per the requirements and Toyota in return will support the institute with the latest curriculum covering automobile fundamentals, safety, Toyota values and basic soft skills. It will also provide learning content, engines, transmissions, practice kits and train the institute’s faculty through the Train the Trainer approach.

The aim of this initiative is to generate talented and technically skilled professionals for the automobile industry.

Toyota, through its initiatives have so far trained more than 10,000 students and around 70 percent of them are working in various automobile companies.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said, “Automotive sector is an important pillar of Indian economy and offers huge scope in the manufacturing economy over the next 5-6 years. India can also be the Principal Pole for the future of the Automobile Sector in India thereby creating huge opportunities for Skilling.”

“The partnership with Toyota is going to be an important one to shape this new direction to Skilling and also serves as a shining example for other manufacturing companies to partner with Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship through NSDC to take PM’s vision of making India a Global Skills Hub forward,” he said. 

Post successful completion of T-TEP course the student will be certified by Toyota, NSDC & ASDC.  (KNN Bureau)