To provide career counselling and skills training to 13,000 youth HDFC partners with NGOs FUEL, Orion Edutech, certification by NSDC

Nagpur, June 25, 2017: HDFC Bank  today launched a training centre for youth in Nagpur. Through this initiative, HDFC Bank will provide career counselling and skills training to over 13,000 youth from Nagpur and Bhandara. HDFC Bank will also help over 3,000 youth find relevant employment opportunities in Retail, Apparel, and Tourism & Hospitality sectors. This initiative aims to make more youth job-ready by counselling them on career opportunities and providing skills training needed for employment. The beneficiaries are primarily from rural geographies. 

Skill development is the need of the hour, with the present skills training capacity in the country estimated at four million as against close to 12 million people who join the workforce each year. As a result, approximately 80 per cent of the total workforce in the country don’t receive training and only 10 per cent of are job-ready and employable without any training, according to a recent research report. 

In addition to the skills training, career counselling will focus on: 

· Increasing self-awareness of the youth 

· Educating them on the various career paths they can pursue 

· Helping them pursue their chosen path by connecting them with industry partners for scholarships  

For this initiative, HDFC Bank has partnered with FUEL (Friends Union for Energizing Lives), an NGO that will provide career counselling to the youth. The skills training will be provided by Orion Edutech, a partner agency of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) that will be certifying the trained youth. 

“As a socially responsible corporate, with the launch of our training centre in Nagpur, we aim to make more youth job-ready by counselling them on career opportunities and providing skills training needed for employment. This will enhance the employability of the youth to help them get meaningful employment opportunities. This in turn will further allow the nation to leverage the demographic dividend that India has. The initiative is in line with one of our core values – Sustainability – where the objective is to Create Sustainable Communities,” said Ms. Nusrat Pathan, Head – Corporate Social Responsibility, HDFC Bank.