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R. Ravikumar

Expects to need 20,000 sales staff in TN

Chennai April 27 Reliance Retail, which expects to take in 20,000 sales staff at its shops in Tamil Nadu alone in the next few years, is all set to open its `manpower training centre' in Chennai soon.

The company's Vice-President (Human Resources), Mr B. Venkataramana, told Business Line, it has decided to locate the training centre in the same building which houses the Reliance Fresh store at Madipakkam.

According to Mr Venkataramana, the idea is to take in around 250-300 people for training initially. The duration of the course could be around three months.

Considering the fact that trained manpower is always in short supply, particularly for the retail industry as the concept of modern retail is relatively new in India, the company has decided to set up its own training centres across the country. At present, it has two such centres — in Mumbai and Kolkata.

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Reliance Retail aims at recruiting people from the underprivileged community in society. "Hence, we are planning to train students from corporation schools and schools run by NGOs. And, we consider this as a part of our corporate social responsibility," he said.

Asked whether the company will take students on an employment basis and pay them a stipend during the course period, he said that actually, it is planning to charge a "small fee" from those who want to join the course "as we want to bring in some discipline and regularity among the students", and will reimburse that once they are inducted into service.

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