News
Maruti Suzuki has announced that it will scale up set up Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres (ASEC) at 45 Government-run Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) across the country. The company is expecting to train more than 2,100 candidates every year at these centres. Trainees will be free to seek employment in any workshop, including those not servicing Maruti Suzuki vehicles.
Each of these Centres will be equipped with a model workshop to provide practical training. Full-time trainers will be appointed and tools and equipment will be provided as well. The Centres will work in partnerships with local Maruti Suzuki service workshops. The company has committed Rs. 5 crore towards this cause.
The centres are being set up in designated ITIs in Jammu, Srinagar, Patiala, Hoshiarpur, Yamuna Nagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Dehradun, Dewas, Durg, Jabalpur, Surat, Godhra, Ankleshwar, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Karimnagar Vijayawada, Kochi, , Calicut, Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram among others.
In addition to the ITI curriculum, the students will be given 50 days training by MSIL trainers in areas related to car service, repairs and maintenance. Students trained at the ASECs will be awarded an additional skill training certificate.
Background
Maruti Suzuki has has two major approaches of ITI support programs: