Hunar Se Rozgar Tak - creating employable skills

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

~Larry Bird 

I was associated with the 'Capacity Building' initiative of the Government of India way back, in the early 2000 when I worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Hotel Management, catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai. The Government wanted people working in the Tourism sector to get some hands on training in handling tourists and tourist operations. People who had no formal training in handling such activities had to be covered. People working in canteens handling preparation and service of food, the taxi drivers, porters at the railway stations and similar other services had to be covered under the scheme. I was to take classes on soft skills covering the basic understanding of  body language of the tourist, anticipating his needs and use of some polite sentences to start a conversation with him. As these people in the service sector were the first point of interaction for a tourist and they thus became the 'Moment of Truth' carrying the image of the country and forming the first impressions.

I did training programmes over the weekends, we covered the porters from the Dadar railway station, one of the biggest in Mumbai. Every session had about 15- 20 participants. They were given a certificate at the end of the programme and also were paid stipend  for the day as they'd have missed the opportunity to earn that day's wage. These were some of the best training sessions that I have conducted.

Hunar se Rozgar tak is on the same lines as Capacity Building program but more streamlined and focused. This is meant for the youth who do not have the means to get formal training that can make them employable in the Tourism and Hospitality sector. The program is very close to my heart and my colleagues share the same sentiment. We'd certainly want the information to reach the most deserving candidates and we train them and make them employable with the right skills set for the hospitality sector.

 Hunar Se Rozgar Tak - The Program Details

Apeejay Institute of Hospitality (AIH), an initiative of the Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels Ltd. is empanelled to offer ‘Hunar Se Rozgar Tak’ programme at Navi Mumbai by India Tourism Development Corporation, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.

 The Government of India, Ministry of Tourism launched a special training initiative titled ‘Hunar Se Rozgar Tak’ in the year 2009-10 for creation of employable skills amongst youth belonging to the economically weaker strata of the society.

In December 2013, AIH received approval from MoT to conduct full time training programs in trades of Food and Beverage Service (06 weeks), Housekeeping (06 weeks) and Food Production (08 weeks). Each course will also have a built-in emphasis to help improve the behavior and attitudes of the trainees, in order to enhance their market acceptability. There will be no application or course fee chargeable to the applicant / trainee. 

A trainee with a minimum attendance of 90% will be paid a lump sum stipend of Rs.1,500/- for the 6 weeks course and Rs.2,000/- for the 8 weeks course. The stipend will be paid at the conclusion of the course. Besides stipend, uniforms and lunch shall be provided free of cost to all the enrolled trainees.

The training programs will be open to 8th standard pass youth in the age group of 18 to 28 years. Admission for the HSRT courses will be on first come first served basis. The trainees with minimum attendance of 90 % will be required to appear in an end-of-the-course test and those who pass it successfully will be awarded a certificate jointly by Apeejay Institute of Hospitality, Navi Mumbai and Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.

AIH will make conscious effort to facilitate employment of the pass-out students from this program.

Ministry of Tourism and Apeejay Institute of Hospitality invite candidates to hop onboard and give wings to their career!

For further details connect with AIH at www.aih.edu.in

or write to

Apeejay Institute of Hospitality
No.1, Sector-10, C.B.D. Belapur, Navi Mumbai – 400 614, India 

Ph. 022 2758 9050
Email : connect@aih.edu.in