JCB India Ltd. recently inaugurated its newest facility at Jaipur. Sunil Arora, Secretary Skills – Department of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India, visited the the factory. Built on 115 acres of land, just 35 km from the Jaipur city, the site is home to JCB’s single largest manufacturing footprint in India.
Component manufacturing is already underway at this new plant and production of telescopic handlers and skid steer loaders for the Indian market will also begin. This facility will also provide additional backhoe loader capacity in time to come.
During his visit, he met and interacted with the JCB management and staff. The company has committed to investing in training programmes to make candidates employable by imparting them with right skill set. JCB Jaipur also runs a welding training school which implements a detailed 16-week induction programme 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,” said Mr Arora on the occasion.
He also emphasised on the importance of the collaborative role that corporates can play in developing skills and thereby contributing to the society. He also focused on the requirement for upscaling the current skilling initiatives with utmost attention on ensuring quality outcome.
When operating at full capacity, this factory will employ around 1,000 people. 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 22,000 youth till date.