Small cars are definitely the need of an hour in the Indian context. The world’s largest car maker by volumes, Toyota Motor Corporation is all set to launch a small car in the country by 2011, resulting in creation of jobs. The company said it would hire 2,000 more people in India.

Toyota Motor Corp and the Kirloskar Group, work on a joint venture -Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM). This group handles the operations in India. TKM has an existing facility in Bangalore. The plant has annual installed capacity of 80, 000 units, which employees about 4, 000 people including the staff from the sales and marketing division.

The second manufacturing plant with an investment of 3,200 crore is coming up at its Bangalore facility. The initial annual production capacity of the plant would be 70, 000 units, which could be expanded up to two lakh units. TKM is also planning to shift some of its current employees to the upcoming plant.

“We will require a strong manpower to give a shape to the idea, which will require an additional 2, 000 people in the second plant which is currently under construction,” said Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) Managing Director Hiroshi Nakagawa. He also said that the company has already started the recruitment process and intends to complete it by the time the plant is set for launch.

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/Toyota-to-hire-2000-workers-in-India/articleshow/5148871.cms

By 2015 West Bengal will be deprived of 1, 30,000 skilled resources, according to the report given by CII – PWC Skill Gap Study released in Kolkata. The major reason for this shortfall is the gap between skills acquired by students during their college period and those that the employers expect from its new employees.
The study covers the sectors like iron and steel, agro-based industries, petroleum and petrochemicals, leather, gems and jewellery, hardware, IT &ITeS, tourism, real estate and construction, retail, R&D and healthcare.
The study conducted so far has concluded that manufacturing sector along with service sector would have major manpower requirement in West Bengal.
Narrowing it down to the manufacturing sector, the iron and steel industry will have the highest requirement of 20, 000 direct recruits on the other hand petrochemicals needs 7, 000-7, 500 direct recruits. While other small manufacturing sectors will have a requirement of 30,000, direct recruits for sectors like food processing and leather industries.
There will be a lot growth in direct recruitment in various leading services sector including construction and real estate followed by IT/ITeS , retail, tourism, healthcare and R & D. The future estimates have been promising indicating that the demand for skilled resources in IT/ITeS/BPO sector would be around 115,000-120,000, with 70,000-80,000 in organized retail. In real estate and construction, there would be an additional requirement of 80,000 – 120,000 skilled personnel. In healthcare, there would an additional requirement of 5,000 – 7,000 qualified MBBS/MD doctors and 20,000 – 30,000 qualified nurses.
While the report talks about growth numbers it also raises concerns on the qualitative skill front of students passing out.
Some of the key functional skill gaps listed by the report are;

• Not having practical knowledge amongst freshers – inability to link the theoretical knowledge, with real life situations.
• Fresher’s lack in their communication and inter-personal skills.

The study mentions that these gaps should be addressed by approaching the industries while designing the academic course structure.
While there should be a relook at the course curriculum across the country and large participation of industries in designing the academic courses, students also should proactively look at gaining practical knowledge and industry based skills by taking up a project work or internship while he is still in college. For example an engineering graduate could look at working with a startup in their product development division working on latest technologies.

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/West-Bengal-to-see-shortfall-in-skilled-manpower-by-2015/articleshow/5124830.cms

Kerala IT joins the Southern IT league by promoting the first phase of the Infopark Koratty in Thrissur. Chief minister Mr. V. S. Achuthanandan, inaugurated the third park, emphasizing that in the next two years 2, 00,000 job opportunities would be created in the IT sector.
The Infopark, allotted 40,000 sq. ft. of IT space, is nearing completion. Thirteen companies have bought a considerable amount of area to set up their working space that will provide employment to about 500 professionals. Koratty is being considered as the next hotspot for IT investments after Kochi. The Infopark has advantages like being 40 km from Kochi, 14 km from Cochin International Airport at Nedumbassery, which is positive indicator to the various IT companies as against in other states.
Strong Infrastructure, good trade facilities and services by Infopark, leading educational institutions of national / international standards and hospitals at reach in Koratty are adding to the advantage.
“A Cyber park at Kozhikode on the similar lines of IT park which is already functioning, would be accessible soon. The Cyber Park will have smaller IT parks under its umbrella at Kannur and Kasargode districts,” said Achuthanandan.
Two hundred IT companies are already employing Thirty thousand employees at the Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram and Infopark campus in Kochi, which itself is an employment indicator in the IT sector in Kerala in the coming years.

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/Two-lakh-new-IT-jobs-in-Kerala-in-two-years-Achuthanandan/articleshow/5109814.cms