Tata Steel has taken initiatives to create opportunities for sustainable livelihood creation for youth in need of employment. Some of them are:

• In 2012-13 Tata Steel set up an Industrial Training Centre at Tamar in partnership with the Government of Jharkhand and NTTF (Nettur Technical Training Foundation). The institute offers two-year vocational courses in Fitter and Electrician trades.
• In Odisha the Company inaugurated a new training centre 'Prerana' to impart Modular Employable Skills to youth from relocated families. The training centre has been set up to up-skill illiterate and semi- literate persons.
• The Company's R D Tata Technical Education Centre at Jamshedpur and J N Tata Technical Education Centre at Gopalpur, Odisha are also running in collaboration with Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF).
• In 2012-13, nearly 2200 youth were trained in various vocational trades across locations with 597 of them finding immediate gainful employment. Of those trained, 781 youth (i.e. 35 per cent) are from SC/ST communities.
• Tata Steel sponsors candidates from its operational areas for Diploma Course in institutes such as Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF), Murbad in Mumbai and J N Tata Technical Education Centre (JNTTEC), Gopalpur. The sponsored candidates in 2012-13 also included girls from mining locations such as Joda.