FTCCI to open Skill Centre, the first of its kind by an Industry Association in Telangana State to support New Age Manufacturing and Service sectors

Hyderabad, January 11, 2023: The Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTCCI), 106 years old, one of the most vibrant regional chambers to come out with a skill centre. Known as FTCCI Pokarna Skill Centre, it will be formally inaugurated on Wednesday by Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce & Electronics and Communications, and Navin Mittal, IAS, Commissioner, College Education, Govt of Telangana, and Gautam Chand Jai, CMD, Pokarna Ltd.

Anil Agarwal, President; Meela Jayadev, Senior VP and Suresh Kumar Singhal, VP of FTCCI will also grace the occasion.

Skill development is crucial to new-age manufacturing and services sectors. Manufacturing is one of the most important and crucial sectors in our state with immense potential for employment generation. Unfortunately, skilled manpower is always scarce in this sector. With new-age, digital technologies disrupting the industry, skilling the manpower along with the changing times in the evolving technologies has become mandatory to cater to the requirements of skilled workforce in this sector.

It is probably the only Training and Skill Development Centre for the manufacturing sector in Telangana along with developing soft skills crucial for the service sector. Housed in the second floor of the FTCCI Building in Red Hills, it is spread over in 2000 sft with two classrooms to train 40 each. The Centre aims to develop skills in 20,000 people in a year at an affordable fee.

The courses and programs will be tailor-made to suit the changing needs of the industry from time to time.

FTCCI also plans to enter MoUs with several organizations on the day of the inauguration to facilitate practical and hands-on trainig for those who are groomed in the Skill Development Centre.

The FTCCI Pokarna Skill Centre is a new-age skill development centre, not many regional chambers can boast of.

FTCCI proposes to organize the programs in the following areas –

1. Export/Import Management
2. Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management
3. Cargo Operations
4. Energy Management
5. HR Management
6. Financial Management, Finance for non-Finance Managers
7. Digital Marketing, Industry 4.0
8. IT – Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence
9. Laws – Business Laws, Cyber Laws, Intellectual Property
10. Wealth Management – Stock Markets & Mutual Funds
11. Business Skills, Communication Skills, Sales & Marketing
12. Hospitality & Service Management, Hotel & Tourism
13. Retail Management
14. Efficient HVAC Systems, Mobile Repairing
15. Fire and Safety Management
16. Construction Skill Development
17. Organic Farming
18. Taxation – GST, Direct Tax
19. Entrepreneurship Development Program
20. Certificate Program in Foreign Languages

The list is not final and keeps on adding more as per the industry requirement. MSMEs are the backbone of the economy and a skill development centre on the lines FTCCI planned is the need of the hour to help the industry embrace new-age technologies and be globally competitive units.