Tata STRIVE and Airbus, join hands for skill training of youth in Delhi and Bangalore . by launching Skill Development Centres.
New Delhi, 18th September 2024: Tata STRIVE, the skill development initiative of Tata Community Initiatives Trust (TCIT) and Airbus India Private Limited have extended their partnership in the areas of skill development and livelihood generation. As part of this joint initiative, a skill training centre called Airbus- Tata STRIVE Skills Training Centres are being established. The partnership aims to provide a platform to the students who want to make their careers in digital courses gaining valuable exposure in the training infrastructure that has been established at the centre.
Located at Dwarka in New Delhi and Nagavara in Bengalore, Karnataka, the institute is well equipped to train youths in each centre, placement linked skill training programs,spanning IT, Electronics and Aviation sectors, through courses such as AWS Cloud Computing, Junior Full Stack Developer and Cyber Security. Based on mutual agreement between both parties, courses in Aviation and Aero Space may also be introduced in future. The courses will be short term in nature, with duration ranging from 3 to 6 months, and would aim to provide sustainable livelihood opportunities to the trained and certified youth.
Tata Group, long regarded as one of the most responsive and ethical business groups in India, responded to this national challenge by establishing the Tata Community Initiatives Trust (TCIT) in 2014. Tata STRIVE, an initiative under TCIT, address the pressing need of skilling India’s youth for employment, entrepreneurship, and community enterprise. Tata STRIVE aims to skill young people in the age group 18-35 years for jobs/entrepreneurship, with a special focus on youth from disadvantaged communities, including women, people with disabilities, SC/ST etc. The training process and course content is customized to enable youth to successfully transition to the workplace and thrive in it. Over the pastdecade Tata STRIVE has positively impacted more than 1.7 million lives through various direct and indirect skilling programs.
The youth from Delhi NCR and Karnataka will be the biggest gainer from the institutes. The institutes with its state-of-the-art facilities and future expansion plans will meet the demands to a greater extent. The Airbus-Tata Strive centres in Delhi and Bengaluru aim to upskill more than 900 youth from economically underprivileged sections of society over a period of three years.
The success of the institute would also lead to the development of a large skilled workforce, which would further encourage the industrial community to establish their presence in the region, mitigating the challenge of unemployment.
About Tata STRIVE:
Tata STRIVE, is the skill development initiative of Tata Community Initiatives Trust, a charitable trust setup in 2014. It addresses the pressing need of skilling India’s youth for employment, entrepreneurship and community enterprise. Tata STRIVE aims to skill young people in the age group 18-35 years for jobs/entrepreneurship, with a special focus on youth from disadvantaged communities, including women, people with disabilities, SC/ST etc. The uniquely designed program matches student’s personalities with jobs to ensure the right fit, industry designed courses are delivered by experienced faculty. Tata STRIVE has positively impacted more than 1.77 Million lives, through direct and indirect interventions and more than 70% of those trained under direct interventions have found placement or self-employment opportunities.
About Airbus:
Airbus is a European aerospace company and a proven leader in the global aerospace sector, Airbus designs, produces and delivers innovative solutions with the aim to create a better-connected, safer and more prosperous world.These cutting-edge products and services span the commercial aircraft, helicopter, defence, security and space segments. Airbus’s products include the A350, which has wide seats, high ceilings, and ambient lighting for a spacious feel, and the iconic A380, which has flown over 800,000 flights carrying more than 300 million passengers.
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