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‘HR practices should touch unskilled workforce’

BANGALORE: Leaders in Human Resources Development and Labour management have called for bringing unskilled labour into HR practices to give them “worker education and special skills” and to prepare them for challenges of new generation industries. The call came from the participants of the national seminar organised by the Central Board for Workers’ Education (CBWE) of the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment. The theme of the seminar was Organisational Transformation through Workers’ Education.

Director of CBWE V. Parameshwaran said “in the changed economic and social conditions, skill development had become a niche area for improving productivity”. He said there was a need to create a roadmap for total skill development. The CBWE will conduct a series of brainstorming sessions in different parts of the country and create a document which will include inputs on expectations from the industry and employers.

He said “jobless growth was not good enough to be called as growth in the modern economic context”. He said Human Resources Development, particularly in skill development, cannot be restricted to specialised fields but will have to be across the board in all classes of trade. He said the ultimate objective of planned development was to ensure human well-being through sustained improvement in the quality of life of the people, particularly poor and vulnerable segments of the population. He said policy measures should have emphasis on social sector development and programmes.

Speaking on the occasion, Managing Director of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) Upendra Tripathy said that the BMTC had been one of the few State owned transport companies to thrive. This was due to the cooperation of the labour force.

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