January 15, 2015: The Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Samsung have joined hands to set up technical schools in MSME Technology Centres across India.
The MSME-Samsung Technical Schools will run Samsung’s Advanced Repair and Industrial Skills Enhancement (A.R.I.S.E.2) program, providing students trade-specific training on various aspects of repair and troubleshooting for consumer electronics products such as mobile phones, televisions, home theatres, home appliances and their related accessories. Students will also get real time working experience at Samsung authorised service centres. Other than technical skills, as part of the course the students will get a chance to learn soft skills which will further enable them to provide exemplary customer service.
The aim is to set up ten such schools across India, one each in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Mumbai and Varanasi.
The partnership will provide a boost to trainees by incorporating a strong component of hands-on industry training. The MOU was signed by development commissioner and additional secretary, ministry of micro, small & medium enterprises, government of India, Amarendra Sinha and B D Park, president and CEO, South West Asia, Samsung Electronics in presence of the minister of MSME, Kalraj Mishra.
Speaking on the occasion, the minister of Micro, Small And Medium Enterprises, Kalraj Mishra said, “The MSME sector employs maximum number of people in India next to agriculture and to meet skilled manpower requirement in the sector, the ministry of MSME is committed to create industry responsive manpower by giving thrust on employable skills and vocational training in partnership with Industry. Various field establishments under the ministry are regularly conducting skill development training programmes through which we have trained more than 600,000 youth during previous year. I hope that this joint initiative of ministry and Samsung would be able to train nearly 10,000 youth per year who would have the opportunity to find placement in various appliances manufacturing organisations including Samsung. I also believe that many of them can also establish their own enterprises and service centre for repairing and maintenance of electrical & electronics goods”.
Shri Madhav Lal, secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises said, “To leap-frog in this direction, the Ministry has agreed to join hands with Samsung Electronics by establishing “MSME-Samsung Technical Schools” at MSME Technology Centres for conducting joint-training programmes in various parts of the country. This is one of the possible models under which the training imparted to youth increases, to a great extent, possibility of their subsequent employment as well as motivates them to establish their own enterprises”.
B D Park, president and CEO South West Asia, Samsung Electronics said, “India is a key growth market for global consumer electronics manufacturing which lends itself to enormous employment opportunity. As an industry leader, Samsung is committed to working with the Indian government to tap this potential. Our collaboration with the ministry of MSME to create a pool of skilled workforce through the MSME-Samsung Technical Schools is a step in this direction. We are confident that through the Samsung A.R.I.S.E.2 program, students will get hands-on experience that will make them an asset to the industry.”
Samsung has already established one such lab at the ITI in Dheerpur, Delhi, in collaboration with the Directorate Of Training And Technical Education (DTTE), government of NCT. Samsung also has plans to establish more such labs across India.
