Bihar Skill Development Mission organized second Road Show at Mumbai to promote RTD Model for skilling Bihari youth

Mumbai : After the launch of Recruit-Train and Deploy (RTD) Model at Le-Meridian, Gurugram in the month of November, taking a step further in skilling the youth of Bihar, Bihar Skill Development Mission organized the second Road Show at Mumbai on 9th December.

The event saw the participation of more major industries Steel & Iron, Automotive, Construction, Pharma, Service, Textile, Pharma and major HR and placement agency. Most of the Industries welcomed the RTD model especially the flexibility to industry partners in exercising the training and the modularity it provides in trained workers on the job. Industries pointed to the unique context of the domestic sector wherein the demand is there but the industry is finding it difficult to deploy people especially if migration is associated. There is a need to increase awareness to people aspiring to work in the sector, Industries appealed the BSDM their help in the mobilization of people from Bihar to undergo training.

Speaking at the event Dipak Kumar Singh, IAS, Principal Secretary, Labour Resources Department and CEO, Bihar Skill Development Mission highlighted the specific characteristics of RTD model that will give industry the flexibility in training candidates to their specific requirements. RTD is the first of its kind scheme modeled on providing flexibility to industry to train candidates from any location having no restriction pertaining to location specificity. He further stated that RTD model is a flagship and unique program of State Mission in which for merging of two different training into one, and while the training will be imparted by industries as per their norms, the cost of training will be borne by BSDM.

He said the willingness of our department in collaborating with industry and its consortium with placement agencies or training partner, Sector Skill Councils, and most importantly with training providers in addressing the concerns and developing BSDM as the best model for skilling. BSDM is successfully running this model with 15 industries and training partners and deployed about 600 Bihari Youth overseas and different parts in the country.

He further added “BSDM would ensure the quality of the industry partners entering the scheme and as the industry partner would be granting post training placements, therefore RTD is specifically designed to help industry train candidates’ specific to their requirements. This will be highly beneficial to industry partners as they would be saving critical costs and time in training candidate on firms’ specific skills”.

Project Director Mr. Amit Pandey said skilled people and industries are very much complement of each other. Industries can increase their productivity with the support of skilled workforce and skilled people can get the skill premium as a return.

Training provides welcomed the new provision and the flexibility the RTD is providing. Hero Moto Corp shown their willingness to partner with BSDM to training candidates form Bihar both within an outside Bihar. Similarly, Team lease proposed partnering with BSDM for industry connect and demand analysis for the industry. In the continuation this the next show will be ordained Bengaluru in January 2018. The focus of the second Road Show was on major industries like Automotive, Steel & Iron, Construction, Pharma and Service to explore partnership for flagship program.

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