21 Women Trainees Secure 100 Percent Placement in Renowned Companies Through Hindustan Zinc’s Zinc Kaushal Program

Business Wire India 21 Women trainees of 1st ever Unarmed Security Guard Batch secures 100 % Placement through Hindustan Zinc’s program – Zinc Kaushal. The objective of the training course was to help women achieve financial freedom and to empower women who have been marginalized due to lack of education, early marriage etc. As part of the three-month training program exposure visits, guest lectures and several engagement activities were conducted to provide a holistic learning opportunity to match the needs of the mainstream industries.
 
Hindustan Zinc’s skilling initiative provides market-linked skill-based trainings on various trades such as general duty assistant, unarmed security guard, micro finance executive etc thus developing the skills and providing them with employment opportunities. These women trainees of Dariba, Zinc Kaushal Kendra have been placed at several renowned organizations such as Radisson Blu, Secure Meters – Udaipur, Zydus Hospital – Ahmedabad, Cocoon Hospital, Narayana Hospital – Jaipur, and Shree Salasar Balaji Temple.
 
Zinc Kaushal Kendra program initiated in 2018 focuses on enabling the unemployed youth with opportunities to upskill and pursue a stable livelihood. Strengthening this commitment, the program in last 3 years has indirectly helped industries by providing them with more than 4,500 skilled youth who are now either employed or are entrepreneurs. The programme was initially established with the goal to offer short-duration intensive courses in different trades and profiles.
 
Expanding the reach of the programme, last year, Hindustan Zinc started the 1st batch of 13 students comprising Hearing and Speech impaired youth to make them independent with employment opportunities in the mainstream industries. Since inception, 4591 youth have been trained out of which 3810 have been placed or have become self-entrepreneurs.