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TATA INDIAN professionals. While waiting for physical campuses to be
INSTITUTE constructed, TIIS has developed a short-term course on
Factory Automation and is creating more courses that are
OF SKILLS (TIIS) aligned with the upskilling needs of the contemporary

industry. These courses intend to provide high-quality and
OVERVIEW high-impact training during short durations and will be
o ered on temporary campuses with the support of
India will add 90 million people to its workforce during this leading domain partners.
decade. Consequently, skill development to create a
qualified and trained workforce across sectors, has
become the need of the hour. The Government of India KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
(GoI) has launched multiple schemes and programmes to
improve skilling in India. However, India continues to have • Mapping sector demand to understand market
a low percentage of formally trained workers that can scenarios and identifying key sectors that have job
handle advanced trades. creation possibilities in India.

The Tata Indian Institute of Skills (TIIS) was incorporated
• Building a core operations and programming team
under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 and was set up
of experts.
by the Tata Education and Development Trust in March
2020, which was selected to partner with the
• A short-term course in ‘Essentials of
Ministry of Skill Development and
Industrial Automation’ was launched in
Entrepreneurship (MSDE) in June 2019 to
November 2021 in collaboration
set up, operate, and maintain two
with Festo—a German company
world-class Indian Institute of
that is recognised as an
Skills (IIS) in Mumbai and
expert in automation.
Ahmedabad. The primary
Since then, three batches
goal behind setting up the
have completed their
institute was to create an
training with 24 students
industry-ready workforce as
in each batch, bringing
per the evolving demands
the count of trained
of national and global
students to 72. The
markets. TIIS is committed to
course is o ered in a
designing and delivering a
blended mode, with the first
contemporary and agile curricular
two weeks made up of online
to meet the emerging skill needs of the
training, followed by lab- based
nation in a digital world. This is being done
training for a week. The
in collaboration with GoI,
training programme has
MSDE, state governments, and
received positive feedback
leading industry partners.
from students, who are mainly from rural districts with
In the past one year, TIIS has been working to streamline minimal exposure to modern manufacturing trends.
its core functions by building a team of experts and

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