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ICICI Academy for Skills, an institute set up by ICICI Foundation, is looking to train more than 6,000 youth at nine training centres across the country by the end of financial year 2014-2015.
ICICI Academy has signed three agreements with Spencers Retail Ltd, Bluechip Corporate Investment Centre Ltd and AkzoNobel India Ltd.
While Spencers Retail and Bluechip Corporate Investment Centre will provide employment opportunities to the eligible students of ICICI Academy, AkzoNobel will be a knowledge partner and will assist the academy in setting up a new course and building the course curriculum, ICICI Foundation said in a statement.
It further said that over 100 companies across sectors such as financial services, automobiles, telecommunications and manufacturing have participated in the placement process. The academy has ensured 100 per cent placement for all eligible students looking for employment opportunities across all centres.
Currently, ICICI Academy offers vocational skill-building programmes in eight courses, including electrical and home appliance repair, retail café operations, web designing, selling skills and office administration. The course duration is around 12 weeks.
The academy has tied up with Schneider Electric Pvt Ltd, Blue Star Ltd, Crompton Greaves, NIIT, Café Coffee Day, Tally solutions. and Voltas Ltd. It has four residential centres at Jaipur, Coimbatore, Narsobawadi (in Maharashtra) and Patna; and five non-residential centres at Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, and Guwahati
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