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BANGALORE, March 14

IN the enthusiasm to realise the benefits of training to the organised sector, we are sadly neglecting the unorganised sector which contributes about 60.5 per cent of the country's GDP, according to Prof Ashoka Chandra, President, Indian Society for Training and Development.

Instead of focussing on the 93.2 per cent of the population that is employed in the unorganised sector, we are emphasising on improving the skills of the seven per cent that is already in the organised sector," he said. He was speaking at the inaugural session of the Southern India Training and Development Conference in Bangalore on Friday.

Prof Chandra said that the 12 per cent GDP growth that the country is looking at requires `no magic' if we direct our efforts toward improvement of productivity in the unorganised sector.

He recommended that the Southern India Training and Development Conference could take a lead in developing a programme for this area. "We have been speaking to the Planning Commission and the ILO and they have agreed to deal with the issues of the informal sector," he revealed.

Inaugurating the conference, Mr T.N. Chaturvedi, Governor of Karnataka, suggested that training should be looked at to increase productivity consistently rather than gaining short-term benefits. "Training programmes should enable maximum optimisation of the resources available," he said.

The two-day conference organised by the Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship would bring to light training and development practices in India, which according to the XIME Director, Professor J. Philip, "should be documented and shared."

"The conference is built around actual industrial experiences in training and development and we have avoided the usual HR jargons and idealistic pronouncements," he stated.

The conference would have presentations by companies in the three sectors: knowledge, manufacturing, service and a separate one by MNCs. ICICI Bank, Wipro, Scandent Group, KSRTC, MindTree, CMC Vellore, Intel, Texas Instruments are some of the companies that would share their experiences at the conference.

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