Rajesh Aggarwal, DG – Training, Ministry of Skill Development

“Whether it is a big company or small, skill problem is always there. At the moment I handle the skill department. We have a good CSR partnership going on with IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, SAP and with two or three others. I would ask others to shake hands with us if you have better CSR plans to produce manpower and whoever is interested in running small training centers within your industry set-ups get certification from us. We will help to extend that as we believe that real training happens when the industry is deeply involved. We have recently mandated the roles of apprenticeship; this can be handy to get manpower at reasonable costs and also not all the laws apply there as the kids are learning and doing work a little bit. Apprenticeship is a very good model to look at.”