Excelsior Correspondent
Mumbai, Apr 4: Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), has been appointed Chairman of the Construction Skills Development Council (CSDC) -a Public Private Partnership of the Union Ministry of Finance.
The industry-led CSDC would bring together all stakeholders in the construction arena to achieve the common goal of creating a skilled workforce for the construction sector. The 20-member CSDC Governing Council to be chaired by Mr Gulabchand would comprise nominees of the Construction Federation of India, CREDAI, Builders Association of India, and National Highway Builders Association, besides leading industry representatives, and Government nominees.
Approved by the National Skill Development Corporation, the CSDC would focus on the manpower requirements of the real estate sector and infrastructure arena, utilities like power and irrigation, urban infrastructure, and transportation.
The CSDC would work jointly with large private companies and institutions to devise industry-based curriculum, set training and exam standards, offer good quality vocational training, and provide industry-endorsed certification. It would help create a skill development plan, while setting up sector specific competency standards. It would then work out training mechanisms to develop modules for trainers. Eventually, it would conduct certification of trainers as well as for workers. It would also undertake accreditation of all sector specific courses.
Functioning as an autonomous body, the CSDC would have a CEO and other staff. It would be provided with an initial grant by the National Skill Development Corporation as well as by industry, and, subsequently, become self-sustainable.
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