CII has been working on the skills agenda since 1987 in partnership with the Industry and government to build a robust and aspirational skill ecosystem in India. CII-Rahul Bajaj Centre of Excellence on Skills acts as a bridge between Industry & youth, impacting over 1 million youth annually.

Objectives

• Curating talent sourcing for the Industry
• Creating Industry-ready skilled talent pool through skilling, re-skilling, and up-skilling programmes
• Aligning Industry curriculum to the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) and enabling issuance of Government validated credit-based certificates
• Leveraging Recruit-Train-Deploy (RTD) model to map Industry demands, mobilise candidates, coordinate Industry-led training and facilitate employment
• Mapping new & emerging job roles
• Creating CII certified talent
• Facilitating international certification and mobility
• Digital skilling

Target: To impact 10 million youth in 5 years

Supporting Government Initiatives on Employment

• Working with Ministry of Labour & Employment on Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Schemes to establish 100 E2E (Education to Employment) centres
• Working with Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship for Upgradation of 1000 ITIs, Awarding Body & Apprenticeship
• Working with Ministry of Corporate Affairs on Prime Minister’s Internship Scheme
• Working with NITI Aayog for leveraging frontier tech for inclusive human capital development
• Working with Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education for AICTE Faculty Fellowship
• Working closely with various state governments on skills & employment

Key Initiatives

CII Model Career Centres (CII MCC)

• Industry driven employment facilitation centres
• Linking job seekers to job providers
• Providing psychometric based career counselling, employability & soft skills training and placement support to youth
• Providing talent sourcing service to Industry
• To establish 100+ CII MCCs across India in 5 years with Ministry of Labour & Employment

CII Multi Skill Training Institutes (MSTI)

• Unique multi-corporate, multi-skilling model
• Imparting vocational training to youth in specialised trades for in-demand job roles
• State-of-the-art sectoral labs for practical training
• Hostel facilities
• Locations: Kandivali, Sindhudurg & Navi Mumbai (MAH) | Dharamshala (HP) | Chhindwara (MP) | Kolkata (WB)
• 36 MSTIs over next 4 years

Industry-Led Sectoral Training

• Partnership with Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland to deliver 18-month Swiss
• Professional Diploma in Hospitality
• Partnership with Cosmos Creative Academy to deliver 18-month Advanced Graphic Design, Animation & VFX Diploma
• Partnership with the Industry to offer customised programmes in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance ( BFSI)
• Training IN & BY Industry partners
• To be expanded to 8 sectors

Alignment of Industry Skill Training with NSQF

• CII is an Awarding Body under the National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET)
• Aligning skill training with National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) levels
• Enabling issuance of government validated credit-based CII-Industry-GoI cobranded certificate

Apprenticeship

• Providing apprenticeship service to Industry as a certified Third Party Aggregator (TPA)
• End-to-end services related to mobilisation, registration, training, monitoring, assessment, and certification
• Facilitating reimbursement under National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) and National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS)

International Mobility Pathways

• Mobility of Indian talent to countries like Japan, Finland, Australia, South Korea, Germany, France, Middle East, etc.
• Sectors- Ship Painters & Sand Blasters, Heavy Vehicle Maintenance, Car Mechanic, Healthcare Workers, Construction Technicians, etc.
• 6 months pre–departure training on language and culture.

CSR Solutions to Industry

• Focus on women, SC/ST, Transgender, PwDs & Marginalised Section
• Providing vocational skilling with 100% placement support

Skill Competitions

• CII Regional & National WorkSkills Competition organised since 1987
• Covers 30+ trades
• Two age categories- below 22 & above 22 years
• Supporting the Government of India on IndiaSkills and WorldSkills Competition

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