Bengaluru: Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) on Friday wholeheartedly welcomed the proposal mooted by the Karnataka Government to establish a new Skill Ministry which aims to produce quality skilling to the passing out graduates in the State.
Welcoming the proposal, Thyagu Valliappa, president, BCIC, said: “This has been a long standing demand of Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce to set up a separate Skill Ministry wherein the youth coming out of educational institutions are adequately equipped to seamlessly enter the job market”.
He said the BCIC was the only regional Chamber in the country to have recognized by the National Skills Development of Corporation (NSDC) to promote skilling in the aviation and aerospace space through its Sector Skills Council which is the only one of its kind in the country. “It is a known fact that deepening of industry-academia interaction will only enhance the quality of teaching and research in the universities. This in turn will translate into enhanced processes and quality production output in the industry. Hence, there is an urgent need to take proactive steps to enhance the employability of students and make them industry ready,’’ he said.
Pankajam Sridevi, Senior Vice President, BCIC said: “We often talk about issues and gaps relating to skills, the employability of new graduates, continued training and refresher courses, Industry coming in as faculty, internships, curriculum modernization, and so on. The establishment of a new Skill Ministry by the State will bridge this gap by arriving at new and innovative mechanisms.”
K Kishore Alva, Vice President, BCIC Said: “It has been a collective criticism among top industry captains that there is a severe mismatch between the curriculum that is taught at the colleges and the actual need of the industry which has a cycle of just two years. The Human Resource heads on several occasions have complained that though candidates are academically well qualified, when it comes to actual shop-floor performance, they are actually at ground zero, which means they need to be retrained and tuned to the industry standards.”
Ashok Saxena, Chairman, BCIC Task Force on Aerospace Aviation said: “Skilled manpower is most critical and vital for the development of a High-Tech industry like Aerospace and Aviation. This has been recognized by the Chamber in full measure. To this end BCIC has pro-actively pursued with NSDC and has set up a sector Skill Council in the field of Aerospace and Aviation at Bangalore as this city is the aviation hub of India. A full-fledged Sector Skills Council is fully operational now with HAL as the key promoter”.
In this backdrop, BCIC while commending the government’s proposal to set up a Skill Ministry said that it should be concretized within a set timeframe as quality human resource directly contributes to the economic development and prosperity of any State.
