Over 200 participating at 31st CII
Regional WorkSkills Competition
Vinay Kumar
Chandigarh
Confederation of Indian Industry organised the three-day
31st Regional WorkSkills Competition in 23 specified engineering trades/skills
at the National Skills Training Institute (NSTI), Ludhiana and Govt Industrial
Training Institute (ITI), Ludhiana, today. Around 200 Participants from various
trades are participating in this three day competition. The Regional and
National WorkSkills Competition is recognised by the Ministry of Skill
Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India and NSDC (National
Skill Development Corporation). This annual event has received tremendous
support from Indian Industry and Institutions with an enthusiastic
participation by skilled workers in all the specified 23 trades in which the
competitions are held across the country.The participants this year are from
Denso India, Subros Ltd, Rockman Industries, Trident Group, Honda Cars, Nestle,
Govt ITI, Patiala, Swaraj, Mahindra & Mahindra, Kiki Center for Technology,
Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki. Ms Neeru Katyal Gupta, Additional Deputy Commissioner
& CEO, District Bureau Employment, Ludhiana, Government of Punjab was the
Chief Guest at the Inaugural session today. She congratulated the participants,
the technical institutes and CII for organising the competition, she added that
such competition gives a boost to the Technical trade students and gives them
an opportunity to showcase their skills at the regional, national and at the
world levels. She also suggested that large companies should open workshops at
the ITIs, which helps in providing them job opportunities. Mr Manjit Singh,
Regional Director, NSTI who delivered the Special Address at the Inaugural. He
added that this event is gaining lot of prominence among the industries. It
started with 9 trades, now it is being conducted in more than 20 trades. NSTI,
under the Ministry of Skill Development have all the word class facilities to
conduct this type of event. Mr Jaswant Singh Bhattal, Prinicipal, Govt ITI,
Ludhiana congratulated the participants for being part of this competition. Mr
Inderjit Singh Nagpal, Past Chairman, CII Ludhiana Zonal Council & Managing
Director, Haveli Ram Bansi Lal welcomed the delegates of the competition. He
thanked the faculty,students, participating companies. He added that there is
only one benchmark for skill workers– and that is the world standard. It is
incumbent upon industry to provide refresher training to its workers from time
to time to ensure that they acquire internationally benchmarked skills.
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