NEW DELHI: Skilling and re-skilling of employees are not buzzwords in
the IT industry alone. Having pumped in crores of rupees to create
world-class infrastructure in modern, technologically superior ports
that are on par with global ports, the Government is now realising that a
skilled workforce is critical to operating it effectively.
Not surprisingly, there has been a greater emphasis in recent times on
building a skilled workforce for the port and maritime sector, and
various measures are being implemented across the Country to achieve it.
This is critical for the success of the Sagarmala programme, where more
than 610 projects costing Rs 7.78 lakh crore have been identified for
implementation during 2015-2035, across the areas of port modernisation
and new port development, port connectivity enhancement, port-linked
industrialisation and coastal community development.
The availability of skilled manpower will be critical to enhancing
efficiency, which, in turn, will help reduce logistics costs.
It is this realisation that has prompted the Government to set up
skilling centres at Major Ports. One of the measures is setting up
multi-skill development centres at JNPT. More such centres are planned
at Chennai Port Trust (ChPT), Cochin Port Trust and Visakhapatnam Port
Trust under the Sagarmala programme.
For instance, to develop training capacity for the port and maritime
sector, Sagarmala Development Company wants to set up a multi-skill
development centre at ChPT in the public private partnership mode. The
Shipping Ministry will hand-hold the operating partner through its skill
development convergence schemes, with the Ministry of Skill Development
and/or Ministry of Rural Development.
The Ministry of Shipping is also funding skill development for 10,000
persons annually over the next three years in 21 coastal districts in
the ports and maritime sector. The Centre of Excellence in Maritime and
Shipbuilding - a first-of-its-kind initiative in Asia - will have the
capacity to train more than 10,500 students in collaboration with
Siemens and the Indian Register of Shipping at a cost of Rs. 766 crore.
The aim is to impart employable engineering and technical skills in the
areas of Ship Detailed Design, MRO, and advanced digital manufacturing
concepts.
Interestingly, under the skill development and training programme, in
Alang, the biggest ship breaking yard in the world, nearly 4,000 persons
are being trained in occupational safety and health.
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