Maruti to train 2,100 youth annually

Tech News - Through the programme, the company is looking to train over 2,100 youth annually in car service and repair, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a statement.

MSI Executive Director (Service) Pankaj Narula said, "With the growth in number of vehicles on roads, quality repair and maintenance offer a major employment opportunity. Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres (ASECs) will provide hands-on experience to trainees and make them capable of quality service and repair of vehicles."
  
MSI, through this initiative, wants to contribute to national efforts for skill development and employability, he added. Each of the centres will be equipped with a model workshop to provide practical training.
   
"Together with this, the company will also appoint full-time trainers, provide tools and equipment and forge partnerships with local Maruti Suzuki service workshops to upgrade skills of ITI students and make them job-ready," the company added.
    
To be undertaken as part of its corporate social responsibility,  Maruti Suzuki has committed Rs 5 crore towards the programme. "Nearly 2,100 youth are expected to benefit annually through these ASECs. The trainees will be free to seek employment in any workshop, including those not servicing Maruti Suzuki vehicles," the company clarified.
    
The centres are being set up at designated ITIs in cities, including Jammu, Srinagar, Patiala, Hoshiarpur, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Dehradun, Jabalpur, Surat, Godhra, Kolkata, Mangaluru, Mysore, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Karimnagar Vijayawada, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram, among others.

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Volkswagen plans to make India low-cost export hub

Tech News - Also, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' initiative, the company will be investing Rs 1,500 crore for localisation and produce cost effective products, Volkswagen India chief representative Mahesh Kodumudi told media on the sidelines of the Hannover Fair.
  
"We are looking at making India a low-cost manufacturing hub catering to emerging and developed export markets. In 2014, we exported 65,000 cars which is 60 percent of our production from the Chakan plant," Kodumudi said.
  
"We are looking to export 70,000 cars this year," he said. The company will also increase production capacity at the Chakan and Aurangabad units in the next two years.
  
Volkswagen AG chief executive Martin Winterkorn said: "India is and will remain an important strategic growth market for the Volkswagen Group. We are convinced that VW will take on a key role in the Indian automobile market in the long-term. We are driving localisation forward with our new engine assembly plant in Pune."
  
VW plans to increase production to 200,000 units by 2018 and add more new models from the 130,000 units Chakan plant.

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