Bridge gap between IT job cuts and innovations, Tamil Nadu employment and training director says

COIMBATORE: The role of ICT Bridge conferences is to bridge the gap between information technology job cuts and innovations, said director of employment and training, government of Tamil Nadu, N Subbaiyan.
Subbaiyan was one of the chief guests for the Bridge conference organised by the ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu held here on Wednesday.
He said, “On the one hand we have IT job cuts, and on the other hand we have innovations happening in this sector.Conferences like Bridge should attempt to bridge this gap and create new opportunities.”
He spoke about how the Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation has been working on imparting skills to the youth.
Subbaiyan said, “We are producing nearly eight lakh students who pass Class XII every year. Of this, more than five lakh students take up higher education. We should take up the remaining and impart skill training to them to help them seek employment.”
Citing an example of one such exercise, Subbaiyan said, “We trained 5,000 students of final year arts and science courses last year in soft skills and core competencies. It helped them get a job easily.”
He pointed out that with more than 500 industry partners, a youth is welcome to approach the skill development corporation and frame his/her own syllabus.
Besides Subbaiyan, chairman of KPR Mills K P Ramasamy and principal secretary, co-operation, food and consumer protection, Kumar Jayanth were the other two chief guests.
Ramasamy spoke about treating every individual of an organisation equally. Retracing his career journey that dates back four decades ago, Ramsamy, said, “I had to get in and out of multiple professions before settling down in textiles. I was demotivated to start a power loom business, and I took it as a challenge. Later I started a spinning mill, and today we have grown to four lakh spindles with 20,000 employees.”
Jayanth spoke about innovations that were termed unviable for the market and went to become huge success. He cited examples of car, wireless music boxes, television sets and mobile phones. He asked the youth to work on coming out with such innovations.