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Secretary of Skills development and Entrepreneurship visits JCB facility in Jaipur

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Sunil Arora, Secretary Skills – Department of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India visited the JCB Jaipur factory today. JCB India Limited recently inaugurated its newest facility at Jaipur. Built on 115 acres of land, the site is home to JCB’s single largest manufacturing footprint in India.

During his visit, he met and interacted with the JCB Management and the JCB staff that has benefitted from the Skilling and Training initiatives of the company and are now working in JCB’s World Class facility at Jaipur. The company has committed to investing in training programs to make candidates employable by imparting them with right skill set. JCB Jaipur also runs a world class welding training school which implements a detailed 16 week induction program to train the fresh graduates.

“JCB India Limited has been pioneering the concept of imparting skills and has proved that with the correct Industry – Academia interface we can provide the necessary employability to today’s youth. He also focused on the requirement for up scaling the current skilling initiatives with utmost attention on ensuring quality outcome.” said Shri Sunil Arora on the occasion. “He also emphasized on the importance of the collaborative role that corporates can play in Skilling and thereby contributing to the society.”

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Component manufacturing is already underway at this new plant and production of Telescopic Handlers and Skid Steer Loaders for the Indian market will begin later this year or early part of next year. This facility will also provide additional Backhoe Loader capacity in times to come. When operating at full capacity, this factory will employ around 1000 people and a large part of this manpower will be recruited locally from nearby Govt. Polytechnics / ITIs and other Pvt. Polytechnics. Another dimension to JCB’s skilling initiatives are the Operator Training Centres which provide training to youth on how to operate JCB machines safely and productively, these 14 centres across India have successfully trained over 22000 youth till date.

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