The Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley conferred the award, “Champion Sector Skill Council” to Textile Sector Skill Council (TSC) for its outstanding work in establishing skill-training ecosystem for Textile & Handloom industry. The awards were received by Sanjay Kumar Jain, Chairman and Dr. J V Rao, CEO of TSC. The same was awarded in a function to commemorate the 3rd Foundation Day of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), GoI, on 9th Nov 2017.
Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and MSDE, Mr. Kenji Hiramatsu, Ambassador of Japan to India, Ms. Chanda Kochhar, MD & CEO, ICICI BANK LTD., Dr. K.P. Krishnan, Secretary and Sunita Chibba, Senior Adviser, MSDE, graced the function.
The award was constituted by MSDE for the best performing skill council among the 40 sector skill councils jointly established by GoI and various industries to meet the ambitious mission of empowering Indian youth with skill training and employability.
TSC over the last three years has established industry recognized training eco system for 67 job roles, which constitutes to 80 per cent of workforce employed by the industry. It also certified more than 1,300 trainers, who are capable to provide both class room and on-job training as per national occupational standards. Till date, about 400 textile mills are affiliated to TSC and have adopted the training ecosystem developed by TSC to train about 40,000 fresh trainees.
TSC also facilitated to organize RPL programs and certified about 65,000 handloom and powerloom weavers of 17 states including NE and J&K. These programs helped some of the weavers in availing Pradhan Mantri Mudra Loan to become first generation entrepreneurs. These programs also helped a few Manipur weavers to get connected to European buyers.
– Apparel and Textile News, Apparel Talk, Indian Apparel
