An integrated,
multi-year skills development program created by Accenture and the National Skills Development
Corporation (NSDC) will mobilize 3,300 Jammu and Kashmir youth and equip them with employment skills over the next five years, providing
support ranging from identifying potential students through job placement.
The program is part of the
government of India’s Udaan initiative to address socio-economic
development by helping young people acquire the necessary
skills to work in corporate India.
“Accenture is deeply committed
to contributing to India’s quest to become a high-performance nation.
This engagement is another extension
of our effort to shore up India’s growth prospects. We are working
closely with NSDC on this important mission and are committed to the
program’s success,” said Nilaya Varma, managing director of Accenture’s
Health & Public Service business in India.
Accenture will provide
management consulting services to create training that blends
traditional, classroom-based instruction with “on-the-job” training.
Students will be selected from across Jammu and Kashmir and trained for
positions in the business process outsourcing industry. Accenture also
will
collaborate with external agencies to leverage expertise and presence in the state.
The work reflects Accenture’s global corporate citizenship initiative,
Skills to Succeed,
which plans to equip 500,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business.
The Indian government created
the NSDC in 2009 to work with private-sector companies and organizations
to ensure that an additional 150 million people
would have the necessary skill sets to be productively engaged by 2022.
The National Skilling Mission that encompasses the role of NSDC and 17
Union Ministries is targeted to train 500 million people by
2022. Earlier this month, Accenture and NSDC released
research
that identified five steps to meet that target.
“Our association with Accenture
is a perfect fit since Accenture has developed similar training
curriculum for various
clients in the past and is well equipped to create the same for this
project. We hope to benefit from Accenture’s wealth of experience in
consulting research,” said Dilip Chenoy, CEO, National Skill Development
Corporation.
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