Daimler
India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Daimler Truck AG (“Daimler Truck”) has launched a new BharatBenz Regional
Training Centre (RTC) in Cuttack, Odisha.
The new RTC, a partnership between
BharatBenz, Directorate of Technical Education and Training (DTET) and PPS
Motors Pvt. Ltd., is situated in the premises of ITI, Cuttack and will be
conducting technical training programs for the students of ITI, Cuttack as well
as BharatBenz dealer sales and service technical staff in the Eastern region.
Pritiranjan
Gharai, Minister; Skill Development & Technical Education, Subroto Bagchi,
Chairman, Odisha Skill Development Authority, Hemant Sharma IAS, Principal
Secretary, Skill development and Department of Technical Education, Reghu. G,
IAS - Director, Technical Education and Training were among those who present
at the launch.
BharatBenz
is setting up Regional Training Centers all over India to reskill and upskill
its technical personnel. The RTC at ITI, Cuttack is the second, while the first
one was set up in Chennai four years back. BharatBenz will be opening two more
RTCs – one each in the North and the West with an objective to train maximum
personnel on an annual basis.
Rajaram
Krishnamurthy, Vice President BharatBenz Marketing & Sales and Customer
Service said, “The launch of BharatBenz Regional Training Center in Cuttack is
a part of BharatBenz Academy’s bigger plan to have one Regional Training Center
each in North, South, East and West of India to train, reskill and upskill
students, our drivers and personnel in sales and after-sales service. Two more
Regional Training Centers for North and West are in the pipeline and will be
operational by December 2022. With BharatBenz Academy being operational for
last 4 years, we have trained about 28,000 technicians so far, in our Chennai
RTC. With the new Regional Training Center in Cuttack, we will be training over
800 technicians and train over2000 technicians within a year,only in the East
zone. Our aim is to train at least 10,000 technicians every year across our
Regional Training Centers.”
The
BharatBenz RTC in Cuttack is spread around 2000 sq-ft and will be expanded quickly
to 6000 sq-ft. The facility is located inside the campus of Govt. Industrial
Training Institute (ITI), Cuttack. This facility is equipped with 500+
equipment and tools, and 2 vehicles and 10 aggregates of trucks and buses for
training programs. Trainers from the BharatBenz Dealer Network and ITI
(Industrial Training Institute) instructors will be conducting a variety of
training programs at this RTC.
BharatBenz
Academy trains BharatBenz truck drivers and dealership personnel in addition to
providing technical support training across 275+ national sales and service
touchpoints. BharatBenz Academy is expanding its training facilities across the
country to ensure BharatBenz technical training is facilitated closer to its
dealerships.