CII along with National Skill Development Corporation, would set up a Logistics Sector Skill council to address these issues through a structured skill development program with the following objectives.
1. Increase the Awareness
2. Create an Investing Environment
3. Formulate a Skill development Solution
4. To be the authoritative voice on Skill Development
Through this initiative, over 40 lakh l
ogistics workers are to be trained and certified by the SSC in the next ten years. We have identified 8 areas that come under this logistics Sector. They are:
1. Material Handling Equipment
2. Warehouse Operations
3. Cranes/ Heavy equipment
4. Container Stuffing/ Destuffing
5. Port Operations /CFS
6. Packaging
7. Trucking Operations
8. Express delivery services (Couriers)
We have identified 64 job roles coming under these areas. The broad activities and the deliverables are as follows:
• Develop national level curriculum for above mentioned sectors
• Develop labour market information systems (LMIS) and to facilitate establishing skill centers to meet the demand
• Affiliation of skill centers
• Facilitate developing Trainers and assessors for enabling skill centers to maintain quality
• Certifying the students passed out of the training centers.
• Create Awareness and build SSC brand value in Logistics sector.
