Stark gap between skilled labour & industry needs: Survey

Bridging Gaps, a skill training provider, released a survey report which brought out the stark reality and mismatch between the skills of the youth and the needs of the industry.

Speaking on the occasion, Madan Mohan Mittal, Minister for Industry & Commerce, Technical Education & Industrial Training, Punjab said, "It is an irony that industry in Punjab is suffering from non-availability of manpower, whereas there is a huge manpower available which industry is finding unemployable."

Mittal also said it pleased him to see young entrepreneurs with good industry background coming forward to bridge this gap. He said skill development was a focus area of his government and his department is taking many initiatives to augment the infrastructure in the state in this regard.

Rohit Chawla, co- founder of Bridging Gaps said in his 15 years of corporate exposure, he came across scores of young men and women, who via the right training could be made employable. This motivated him to start this venture wherein his passion was shared by his other co- founders, Anurag Aggarwal and Gagan Chhabra.

Bridging Gaps is an organisation which looks at training , skill development and capability building. It has a unique approach called T.I.G.E.R (Train, Involve, Groom, Evaluate, Recruit). It has adopted an end-to-end approach, in which they assess the learner through an online assessment test, train and groom, conduct an evaluation based on industry parameters and finally put to companies in different domain for hiring them.