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Indian Embassy In Tokyo Creates Skill Facilitation Cell At Its Premises New Delhi, Aug 5 (KNN)
The Indian embassy in Tokyo has set up Skill Facilitation Cell to create an ecosystem in Japan to put in place a framework and mechanism to send high number of Indian skilled youths to Japan.
The cell would not only generate awareness among the Japanese corporate sector about the immense potential of human resource India posses but also facilitate the exchanges to push skill development initiatives – TITP and SSW.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology, announced the formal launch of“Skill Facilitation Cell” while participating virtually in the 'India-Japan Skill Connect' conference (インド日本スキルコネクト会議) held at the Indian embassy in Tokyo on Friday.
The event witnessed high level Ministerial participation – Shunsuke Takei, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs,
Shogo Azemoto, Parliamentary Vice-Minister, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Yasuhiro Takami, Parliamentary Vice-Minister, Ministry of Justice addressed the gathering.
The conference also saw participation from 159 Japan-based companies from sectors such as consulting, IT, HR, manufacturing etc.
Skill Facilitation Cell would support Japanese businesses interested in hiring skilled and semi-skilled workers from India, and it will a First Point of Contact for Japanese Supervising Organizations for seamless skill connect with India.
It will be working in tandem with both private and government organizations from India and Japan for a comprehensive match-making support
In his opening remarks, Sibi George, Ambassador of India to Japan, said that the embassy would be organinsing several events in Tokyo and various prefectures across japan to generate awareness and facilitate the exchanges about the huge potential India has on skilled manpower.
He also called upon the Japanese government to enter into Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement (MMPA) with India.
“India has already inked MMPA with several countries including Germany, France, Portugal, UK and Denmark. It will help us to cooperate and expand our activities to meet the requirements of the global knowledge as India is a great source of human resources,” Ambassador George added while underlining the ''Special Strategic and Global Partnership'' between India and Japan and called for deepening synergies in the field of skill development and transfer of talented human resources from India to Japan to cater to the demands of the Japanese industries and businesses.
Also present on the occasion were JICA and JITCO representatives, a 25-member CII skill delegation comprising of the Sikkim government officials, representatives from recruiting agencies and companies in the area of skill development and human resources based in India and Japan.
(KNN Bureau)