Yamaha Motor India to partner with Navjyoti to bridge skills gap

October 29, 2013: Yamaha Motor India Sales is planning to adopt government technical institutes and to partner NGOs in various regions in India as part of its CSR initiatives.

Under this training programme, the company imparts free training to youngsters and bears all training-related expenses. The two-wheeler manufacturer now plans to launch Yamaha Training Schools (YTS) at each Yamaha Technical Academy (YTA) in Surajpur, Kolkata, Pune and Bangalore to promote and encourage economically weaker youth to learn Yamaha technology and get employed at Yamaha dealerships. It will partner with NGOs to launch YTS’s with Yamaha Technical Academy certification.

Furthering this initiative, the company has signed an MoU with Navjyoti India Foundation (NIF) – a not-for-profit organization working with marginalised sections. NIF’s ‘B School for Marginalised’ is a programme launched in Delhi and NCR to implement the right-to- skills model to bridge the skills gap between market demand and supply of trained people. The main aim of the B school for the marginalised project is empowerment of unemployed youth and women to become socially-driven change agents for nation-building.

According to Jun Nakata, director-sales and marketing, Yamaha Motor India Sales, “Working with and investing in the less privileged youth is one of our ways of being a socially responsible company. We are looking at making a lasting impact on the lives of these young people by making them self-reliant. With the present MoU, we will develop a synergetic partnership with NIF thereby helping deserving students find employment in the automobile sector via impartment of technical training and education. The success of this model will facilitate its replication in other regions across India, thereby ensuring the company’s contribution in some small measure towards the national goal of inclusive development.”

Yamaha Motor India says it seeks to ensure that skills imparted by NIF’s institute keep pace with the industry’s technically skilled manpower demands. This will be done by screening the right candidates from NIF and providing them an opportunity of a job-oriented technical training course in Yamaha Motorcycle Repair and Servicing in Yamaha Technical Academy (YTA) bronze and silver levels through Yamaha Training School.

SHOBHA MATHUR