Bangalore, May 2 (KNN) With an objective to empower youths of this country, LIC Housing Finance Ltd (LIC HFL) has launched ‘UDYAM’, a skilling centre in Bangalore for marginalized youth. It has been launched in association with Lok Bharti Education Society, the implementing partner.

Commenting on UDYAM, Managing Director & CEO of LIC Housing Finance Ltd, Vinay Sah said "It is an important part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) whereby along with our implementing partner we will skill the youth to be enterprising for livelihood.”

Under UDYAM, Centres of Excellence (COE) has been started in Delhi and Bangalore and later on be expanded to other cities."

The COEs will provide skill development training to marginalized youth in the sectors of BFSI, Retail and IT/ITES.

Going forward, more domains would be launched as per industry requirement and the positive experience will be replicated in more cities, he added.