Qualification packs for 70 job roles in Aerospace and Aviation sector developed

Bengaluru: The Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council (AASSC) has developed Qualifications Packs for 70 Job Roles spread across five sub sectors through extensive industry engagement.
Using these Qualifications Packs as template, skill development programmes were being launched across India with one of the biggest programmes launched by the Aviation Multi Skill Development Centre at Chandigarh. With five batches have already passed-out, the Centre had plans to train around 2400 candidates over the next three years according to a release issued here on Friday after the Board Meeting of the Council.

HAL Chairman and Managing Director T Suvarna Raju, who is al;so the Chairman of the Council, said the strength of Board members was being enhanced to 26 member from present 21 to include MSME representation to meet the future challenges, To ensure availability of qualified trainers and assessors, AASSC has run programmes along with Department for International Development (DFID), UK and many more such schemes were in the pipeline. Development of Transnational Standards for Aerospace Design job roles is underway with the support of DFID, UK.
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has decided that India will be represented in the ‘Aircraft Maintenance’ skill in the World Skills competition scheduled to be held in August 2019 at Kazan, Russia. The AASSC has been entrusted with the responsibility of conducting the regional level selections for the trade at Bengaluru and the national level selections at Greater Noida. The candidate selected at the nationals will represent India at World Skills competitions 2019 at Kazan, Russia. The AASSC with the support from NSDC will train the candidates from July 2018 till the world Skills competition in August 2019 and these candidates will also take part in the BRICS skills completion in South Africa.
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