CII, City

New Delhi, Apr 3 (UNI) The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), SCHWING Stetter India, a leading player in the Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) equipment industry and City&Guilds(UK) today announced a tie up to offer Certificate Courses for RMC equipment operators in Chennai.

City&Guilds(UK) would assess the operators and issue certificates on successful completion of the course. The course offers training on all aspects of operation of RMC equipment, maintenance, safety and trouble shooting.

The 'Concrete Pump Operator' and 'Batching Plant Operator' certificate courses are part of the Skill Development Initiative (SDI) by the CII Southern Region, to improve the employability of the economically backward population, especially the youth. This initiative would also provide the industry in South India with skilled manpower, to meet the industry's ever growing need.

These courses would be ideal for fresh Polytechnic and ITI graduates.

Speaking on the association with SSIPL, CII Chairman, Southern Region, Parasuraman said, ''CII works in partnership with the private sector and government agencies to train manpower in development of skills. CII is targeting to train around 5000 people by the end of this year in various trades, and make them employable.'' The program will include delivery of locally relevant and internationally benchmarked 'practical skills' training.

''We are thankful to CII and City&Guild (UK) for partnering with us in offering these courses. Being a major player in the RMC equipment industry, we strongly believe in enhancing the skill and knowledge of the people working with our equipment. This course will certainly ensure that the equipment are handled in the right way thereby decreasing the down time and increasing the equipment availability,'' SSIPL Managing Director Anand Sundaresan.

Speaking on the occasion, SCHWING Stetter India Pvt Ltd Vice President (Marketing), V G Sakthi Kumar said, ''We have been training our customers on the usage of our equipment since our inception. With the infrastructure boom in place we believe that the demand for these operators will increase in the days to come. Our training centre is fully geared to meet this demand and our customers will also benefit from this venture through improved efficiency and expertise of their own work force.'' UNI MP SS RS1523