Toyota expands its technical education programme in India

Toyota Kirloskar Motor in collaboration with Toyota Motor Corporation and its nationwide dealer network has launched its training model of the General Technician Toyota-Technical Education Program (T-TEP) at Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Industrial Training Institute, [SDM] Venur. This is the third General T-TEP program in Karnataka, the previous ones being with Deshpande Pvt ITI in Haliyal and Government ITI in Peenya, Bangalore.

T-TEP, a special training module in which Toyota has tied up with ITis, was launched in 2006 in India. The program aims at providing training on the latest automotive technology and service techniques every year to ITI students across India along with providing hands-on, real-time experience within Toyota dealerships.

In its first year, the program was implemented in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Hubli. It was subsequently introduced in Bangalore, Mysore, Lalru, Pune, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Ghaziabad, Kolkata, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Indore, Vizag, Ludhiana, Cuttack, Haldwani, Nalbari, Gurgaon, Satara and Paramakudi.

After a span of 10 years, TTEP is now associated with 42 training institutes under the program. The General Technician T-TEP training syllabus imparts training on basic automotive fundamentals, Toyota’s way of service and technologies in the company’s cars which can help the students to get jobs in the automotive general repair industry.

According to B Padmanabha, VP – customer service group, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, "The future of our nation lies with the youth. Providing the necessary advance skill and knowledge will ensure increased competency to meet industry and market expectations. When we first established this training module back in 2006, we were essentially compelled by the fact that there were inadequate trained and skilled manpower available in the industry. The purpose of TTEP is to contribute as a sustainable growth partner to automobile industry such that it can grow the technical capability of young India. Our 42nd association with an ITI institute has further reinstated our objective to carve out opportunities for talented students from the rural areas and make them more employable for the Indian automobile industry."

Also present at the occassion was Padma Vibhushan Veerendra Heggade, president, SDM Educational Society. Ujire said "The Make in India initiative will boost economic growth and pave the way for large scale employment opportunities, which will create demand for skilled manpower in the country. With the rise in industrial activity in the region, there will be a significant requirement of more technical and creative skills to sustain in the competitive environment. It is an honour to associate with Toyota Kirloskar Motor which will promote successful industry-institute interaction to bridge the industry- academia gap that persists in India. The unique training model by TTEP will contribute towards increasing the availability of skilled manpower for the Indian automobile service industry in the coming years."

http://www.autocarpro.in/news-national/toyota-expands-technical-education-programme-india-9946

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On his first visit to India after taking over as Google CEO, Pichai was reluctant to set timelines for this transformation or give numbers on when the India operations could become more important than the US one, but he did say that Google already had 1,500 people in India as compared to around 10,000 in the Bay area — India, he said, will be a bigger market for Android phones than the US sometime in 2016 and it has already has more internet users. “And that’s when there’s still a billion more people to connect to the internet”.

As part of Pichai’s visit, Google announced a programme to train two million Android developers over the next three years by working closely with over 30 universities.

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http://indianexpress.com/article/business/business-others/sundar-pichai-calls-for-creativity-in-indias-education-system/

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At an event at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday, which came at the fag end of Mr.Pichai’s visit to Delhi, Mr.Mukherjee said that in spite of possessing “brilliant minds” and top technical talent, Indian universities weren’t among the top 100 in global rankings.

Post a media event on Wednesday, where he mentioned plans to provide Wi-Fi with helium balloons and bring several railway stations under a reliable internet network, Mr. Pichai’s meeting with Mr.Mukherjee was centred around ways in which education could be made more accessible with technology.

“We can create a new India,” said Mr.Mukherjee, “by harnessing these resources (young minds) and not by mere speeches and some allocations (in the Union Budget).”

Others present at the event included senior technocrats from the telecommunications and information technology ministries, National Association of Software and Service Companies and CEOs of e-commerce companies including Practo, Paytm and InMobi. Some of them gave presentations on the initiatives taken to promote entrepreneurship, bring more women into leading positions in companies and make education more accessible to all.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-visit-help-promote-education-in-india-pranab-mukherjee/article8001067.ece

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