Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant inaugurated Tata Strive Skill Development Centre at PES College, Ponda, on Thursday. Agriculture Minister Ravi Naik was also present.
Addressing the gathering that also included students, Dr Sawant hailed the Tata Strive Skill Development Centre as a facility that will provide ‘life-changing positivity’ to the students who have taken admission to the centre. He also emphasised that this is free of cost skilling programme with job opportunities.
“Skilling, Re-skilling and Up-skilling, is the future of ‘New India’. UNESCO has declared that this is the ‘Skilling Year’,” said Dr Sawant as he expressed hope that all Goan youth will get skilled to realise the goal of Swayampurna Goa 2.0.
“You will have job opportunities in the same sector that you are skilling in,” the Chief Minister told the students, who will undergo counselling first before taking their best-suited skilling course.
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About ‘Tata Strive’: Tata STRIVE has set up a replicable model for training and skill development, creating training capacity in select sectors and trades along with appropriate certification and measurement of outcomes. It is built around certain guiding principles. For example, the programme aims to be accessible to the underprivileged and those who have traditionally been denied access to such training, on account of gender, disabilities or ethnicity.
The model is scalable, and designed to become sustainable. The quality standard for the programme has been set high – to ensure that Tata STRIVE will be synonymous with quality skill-building. Courses offered by Tata STRIVE are at the minimum aligned to the National Occupational Standards as specified in the Qualification Pack of various Sector Skill Councils and in many cases exceed them.
Tata STRIVE is aligned with the 25 sectors of focus identified by the Union Government as well as skill gaps identified by the National Skill Development Corporation.
Scalability and sustainability is key to the exercise. Tata STRIVE drives collaborations in the area of knowledge exchange, technology, domain expertise and delivery models. It collaborates with Tata and non Tata companies, Tata Trusts (Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and its Allied Trusts) as well as with NSDC/Non NSDC training partners. Trades or skills to be taught at a particular centre are based on the demand and the need in that region, thus ensuring that beneficiaries can benefit from a choice of job and entrepreneurship opportunities.
