NSDC joins hands with Coca-Cola for skill development

With an objective to involve corporate India in the National Skills Agenda, National Skill Development Corporation signed a MoU with Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd (HCCB). The project aims to train the women in the community and show them a path to economic empowerment through training in retail programs. It also helps to create entrepreneurial opportunities through FLO Seller.

Dilip Chenoy, MD & CEO, National Skill Development Corporation and Shukla Wassan, Executive Director, Legal & Company Secretary, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. Signed the MOU. The MoU is signed for a period of five years.

Commenting on the partnership, Chenoy, said, “It gives me immense pleasure to see how big corporations like Hindustan Coca-Cola are coming forward and contributing to the skills landscape. This collaboration will help to shape up and uplift the present stature of unskilled workforce as the project completely focusses on employability and economic upliftment of the underserved section of the society. This project will help equip them with skills to enhance their employability and find jobs of their choice or ways of self-employment. ”

Wassan adds, “With this partnership, we are scaling up our initiative in the space of skill development. This partnership aims at building and enhancing employability potential of youth and women and help gettingthem integrated into economic mainstream by way of finding employment and entrepreneurial opportunities as may be the case. This partnership will go a long way in achieving the scale.”

The project will operate under two models:

COMMUNITY SKILL BUILDING which will impart skill based training for enhancing self-employability and entrepreneurship among youth in the areas of Carpentry, Mobile Repairing, Tailoring, Horticulture, Beauty Services, Cutting/Tailoring, Construction, Electrician, etc based on Skill gaps and youth aspirations in addition to Digital literacy, IT and Personality development courses.

PRAGATI which will enable in economic empowerment of approximately 15000 women and create earning opportunities for them through training in retail programs. PRAGATI will focus on implementing customized programs to help prospective women entrepreneurs across all targeted areas such as Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu, Bihar, North East, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh etc.