Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Maruti Suzuki India, country’s largest car maker is planning to set up an Automotive Skill Development Institute (ASDI) for imparting technical training. This initiative will help the company and its competitor’s as automobile industry will get ready-to-employ skilled manpower.

The company has kept qualification for joining the course very low, even school drop outs are eligible to join up. The company also appears to go beyond mere technical training in that the students will also be trained ‘in proper value systems of work culture and team work'.

It had explored the possibility of establishing ASDI with the objective of providing technical training to those with at least school-level education so as to make them employable on the shop floor as well as in service workshops. On successful completion of the course, the trainees will be absorbed at the service networks of the company and in its manufacturing facilities depending on its manpower needs.