PATNA: The state labour resources department and India Yamaha Motor on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which the automotive giant will provide two-year training in mechanical and automotive sector to ITI and higher secondary-pass students.
The training, meant for students in the age group of 18-24 years, will be conducted in Yamaha's manufacturing units at Surajpur (UP), Faridabad (Haryana) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu).
"For now, we target to train 300-400 students every year. The labour resources department will facilitate the screening process and the selected students will be given stipend and subsidized food and lodging," said department's principal secretary and Bihar Skill Development Mission CEO Deepak Kumar Singh.
The brightest trainees may be absorbed by the Yamaha after the training, Singh said and added he had also requested the company to set up laboratories and workshops in ITIs and technical institutions in Bihar.
The labour resources department also signed an MoU with Astric Computers Pvt Ltd under the centrally-sponsored scheme 'Upgradation of 1,396 ITIs through Public Private Partnership' for the development of Women Industrial Training Institute located near Digha Ghat in Patna.
Labour resources minister Vijay Kumar Sinha, Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd's MD Takashi Terabayashi and Astric Computers (I) Pvt Ltd's CEO Prabhat Kumar Sinha were present on the occasion.
The training, meant for students in the age group of 18-24 years, will be conducted in Yamaha's manufacturing units at Surajpur (UP), Faridabad (Haryana) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu).
"For now, we target to train 300-400 students every year. The labour resources department will facilitate the screening process and the selected students will be given stipend and subsidized food and lodging," said department's principal secretary and Bihar Skill Development Mission CEO Deepak Kumar Singh.
The brightest trainees may be absorbed by the Yamaha after the training, Singh said and added he had also requested the company to set up laboratories and workshops in ITIs and technical institutions in Bihar.
The labour resources department also signed an MoU with Astric Computers Pvt Ltd under the centrally-sponsored scheme 'Upgradation of 1,396 ITIs through Public Private Partnership' for the development of Women Industrial Training Institute located near Digha Ghat in Patna.
Labour resources minister Vijay Kumar Sinha, Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd's MD Takashi Terabayashi and Astric Computers (I) Pvt Ltd's CEO Prabhat Kumar Sinha were present on the occasion.
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