SME Times News Bureau | 16 Oct, 2019
Union Minister of
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) Mahendra Nath Pandey on Wednesday
announced the launch of 14 Authorized World Skills India Training Centers
(AWSITC) across 9 cities in India, for the Media and Entertainment sector.
The new institutes
are being set up for advanced skill training of candidates in the media and
entertainment sector, not just to compete in the World Skills and IndiaSkills
competitions buts also to further develop the skilling eco-system for training
candidates for the international market.
The state of the
art AWSITCs, set up in partnership with the MESC (Media & Entertainment
Skill Council), will help the candidates to enhance their skill as per the
global standards and the training programs will be designed as per the NSFQ
level, which will be industry linked.
All candidates
will get hands-on training on live projects.
The minister also
marked the event by felicitating some of the winners of the recently concluded
WorldSkills competition, held in Kazan in August this year.
This year was
India’s best ever performance in the biennial WorldSkills competition. The
48-member Indian team won one Gold, one Silver, two Bronze medals besides 15
Medallions of Excellence at the competition.
Pandey said on the occasion “With the advent of technology,
skilling in the sector is gaining traction worldwide. There are lot of avenues
for skilled workforce across evolving sectors like graphic design, 3D Digital
Game Art, Print Media etc. These world class state of the art centres will help
in preparing the candidates to be ready in making our country proud at various
competitions and also equip them with enhanced skills in order to become
industry ready.”
Subhash Ghai,
Chairman, Media and Entertainment Skill Council said at the event, “Participating in the WorldSkills
competition is a great honour. It is a global platform and privilege of being
there and then coming back with a medal is something memorable. Platform like
WorldSkills go a long way in incentivizing and encouraging people to not just
learn a skill but excel at it. We hope that through this institute, we can
encourage more youth to get skilled and not just participate, but come back
with a medal and make their country proud.”