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20/07/22 21:58 PM IST

Toyota Technical Education Program(T-TEP) initiative

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  • National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Toyota Kirloskar Motor [TKM] and Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC) to train 18,000 students in three years.
About the Initiative 
  • Focus on rural areas, making them more employable through the company’s unique training initiative — Toyota Technical Education Program (T-TEP).
  • Students will be trained across five automotive job roles such as General Technician, Body and Paint Technician, Service Advisor, Sales consultants and Call Center Staff.
  • Aimed at generating talented and technically skilled professionals for the automobile industry, T-TEP is strongly aligned with Skill India Mission and so far, been associated with 56 ITI/Polytechnic colleges covering 21 states.
  • Currently more than 10,000 students have been trained and 70% of the students are working in various automobile companies.
  • T-TEP has become a benchmark in imparting automotive training and providing immense benefits to the automotive service industry and society at large.
  • By partnering with TKM and ASDC, NSDC will not only be able to build a highly skilled technical workforce, with greater career prospects in the automotive service industry, but also enable youngsters earn a decent livelihood by providing them with employment opportunities. 
  • As a part of this initiative, ASDC will identify the institute as per the requirements and Toyota will support the institute with latest curriculum covering automobile fundamentals, safety, Toyota values and basic soft skills.
  • In addition, the company will provide e-learning content, engines, transmissions, practice kits and train the institute’s faculty through Train The Trainer approach.
Source- PIB 

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