New Delhi,
March 26, 2009: In its attempt to bridge the Education-Employability
gap and create talent pool in urban slums, leading Global Talent Development
Corporation, NIIT, today announced the setting up of NIIT Yuva
Star, a Career Development Centre (CDC) at Jahangirpuri, New Delhi in
association with NGO Navjyoti India Foundation. Dr. Kiran Bedi, General
Secretary of Navjyoti India Foundation and Mr. Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman, NIIT
Ltd., inaugurated the Career Development Centre, Jahangirpuri, Delhi.
NIIT Yuva Star, the
Career Development Centre (CDC) will serve as a vocational training centre in
Jahangirpuri, providing employability skills to youth in the age group 17-25
years. The CDC will provide relevant skills to the unemployed youth for making
them employable for jobs in various industry sectors such as retail, automobile
sales, telecommunications, hospitality, healthcare etc. Additional skill sets
will be addressed going forward as per requirements of partnering organizations.
The students will be provided with internship and placements with the purpose of
helping them find employment in the corporate sector.
Speaking on the
occasion, Mr. Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Ltd. said, “NIIT Yuva
Star is yet another initiative by NIIT to unleash the power of youth from urban
slums.”
Dr. Kiran Bedi, General Secretary, Navjyoti India Foundation, said,
“NIIT Yuva Star has made a great impact in the lives of the
underprivileged youth of urban slums. Our foundation was set up with the aim of
making the society self reliant. We are pleased to come together with NIIT for
this project and hope to contribute towards the overall development of
society.”
NIIT Yuva Star is an
initiative by the Not-for-profit education society- The NIIT Institute, setup by
NIIT to empower the youth in urban slums. This is the second such centre to be
established after the flagship centre at Tughlakabad village in New Delhi. The
CDCs are launched in association with the resident NGOs such as Navjyoti
India Foundation for the Jahangirpuri Center.
About TNI
The NIIT Institute
(TNI) is a not-for-profit society promoted by NIIT and has access to 25 years of
NIIT’s IT Training, Education Management and Industry collaboration experience.
TNI has the dual advantage of NIIT’s core competence in the areas of training
creation and delivery and its huge combined experience base of catering to
marginalized sections of society. TNI will leverage NIIT’s content and
pedagogical expertise and design training content after analyzing industry
requirements. These 3-dimensional training programs will equip students to
become employable by training them on industry-specific skills in addition to
basic IT, workplace productivity tools, English as a spoken language and other
professional skills.
As a key mission, TNI
aims at positively impacting the underprivileged of the country through its
educational process and has identified a large number of employable youth in
urban slums and other semi-rural areas. The education of these youth does not
make them employable as per the current industry requirements and, therefore,
their current competencies show up a lack of appropriate communication,
grooming, etiquette, and attitude. This reflects in their current personality
make up that renders them as unemployable even at the entry level.
TNI is leveraging
technology to enhance the learning experience in their CDC project. The planned
courses, length of training, courseware and pedagogy come from past training
experience and extensive research conducted by NIIT. The CDCs will also work at
motivating and providing supplementary education to school students at classes
8+ level so that students complete Class 12 successfully. Also, the CDC will run
evening classes for the employed youth in the community – imparting further
vocational skills as well as professional life skills for them to look at higher
levels of employment.
About NIIT
NIIT, Asia’s No. 1 IT trainer and leading Global Talent Development
Corporation, offers learning and knowledge solutions to over 5 million students
across 40 countries.
Leading IT magazine Dataquest has conferred upon NIIT,
the Top IT Training Company Award 2007. Rated among India’s Business Superbrands
2008, NIIT’s Individual Learning Business offerings include industry-endorsed
programs for students seeking careers in IT - GNIIT, Integrated ANIIT for
Engineers (IAE), and Advanced Technology Programs for IT professionals.
NIIT offers turnkey
IT integration program for schools. NIIT has provided computer-based learning to
over 9,500 government and private schools.
For working
professionals, NIIT Imperia, Centre for Advanced Learning,
offers Executive Management Education Programmes in association with Indian
Institutes of Management (IIMs) at Ahmedabad, Indore and Kolkata.
NIIT
Institute of Finance Banking & Insurance (IFBI), formed by NIIT
with equity participation from ICICI Bank, offers programs for individuals and
corporates in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance.
NIIT
Uniqua, Centre for Process Excellence, addresses the increasing demand
for skilled workers in the business and technology services industry by
providing training programs in relevant areas. This is a part of NIIT Institute
of Process Excellence, a NIIT-Genpact venture.
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Corporate Learning Solutions, offers integrated learning solutions
(including strategic consulting, learning design, content development, delivery,
technology, assessment and learning management) to Fortune 500 companies,
Universities, Technology companies, Training corporations and Publishing
houses.
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About
Navjyoti India Foundation
Navjyoti India
Foundation came into being in the year 1988 as the brain child of Dr. Kiran
Bedi. The organization was set up with the idea of promoting welfare policing,
the outcome of which was their drug de-addiction program. Since its inception,
Navjyoti India Foundation (NIF) has made significant contributions in other
areas like education, women empowerment, family counseling, rural and urban
development, health, HIV/AIDS, environment as well. Everyday, NIF brings joy and
smiles to over 10,000 people. The impact is huge. It is the relentless efforts
of their ever growing family working day in and day out.
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