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The Institute of Indian Foundrymen (IIIF) has rolled out its own training programme Yogyata Vikas aimed at improving the skill levels of shopfloor workers at foundry units across the country.
The first training session for a batch of 25 workers was launched on Wednesday at Hinduja Foundries’ unit in Sriperumbudur.
Training target“Our aim is to train at least 1,000 workers during 2016 and over 5,000 by 2018,” K Samaraj, president, IIIF, told Business Line . IIIF is the apex body for Indian foundry industry (metal castings industry), founded in 1950 with headquarters in Kolkata.
“At present, most of the people on the shopfloor get trained on-the-job and there is no formal training. IIIF’s training programme has been designed to address some shortfalls, increase productivity by 15-20 per cent and reduce rejection rates by 4-5 per cent,” he added.
Elaborating, he said there was a need to grow the foundry capacity three-fold in the next 10 years to support manufacturing in the country.
While capital and technology are no longer issues, availability of skilled manpower is likely to be a major challenge.
At present, the foundry sector employs 5 lakh people directly and 1.5 million indirectly. Given the growth projections, manpower strength will grow at least two times in the next 10 years.
With an annual capacity of 10 million tonnes, Indian foundry industry is third largest in the world after China (45 million tonnes) and the US (11-12 million tonnes).
Cost of trainingThe training programme will be conducted at factories for a fee of ₹10,000 a day. The fee will be given to the trainers, who have been trained by IIIF.
“It is on no-profit basis and probably we are the first industry body to launch such training progranme without waiting for any government support,” said Sanjay Shroff, honorary secretary of IIIF.
With a total of 10 modules and each requiring eight hours of training, the curriculum of Yogyata Vikas has been designed by IIF experts in seven languages. Certification will be provided by IIF after the training, Shroff added.
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