Schneider Electric India Foundation

Skill Building Program

India is a country, with approximately 65% of its youth in the working-age group. If ever there is a way to reap this demographic advantage, it has to be through skill development of the youth so that they add not only to their personal growth but to the country’s economic growth as well.

On one hand, SEIF’s strategic Skill Development program is aligned to the skill vision of the country, and on the other hand, it is in line with SDG 4 and 8 of Quality Education and Economic Growth. Schneider Electric India Foundation started its flagship Skill Building program in the area of Electrician Training in 2009. The program focuses on providing hands-on practical training and it is achieved through highly customized and especially developed course content. Coupled with the specially developed and highly customized state-of-the- art practical labs, students get ample practical exposure to simulating real-life work conditions. The course curriculum effectively prepares students for residential as well as industrial sectors.

TThis training is further complemented by certain bolt-on lectures and training which are provided by the subject matter experts from Schneider Electric, both in technical and life skill areas. Trainers for this program are trained, using a high-intensity short duration course, at our state-of-the-art training facility in Bangalore. This facility is one of the finest in the country in terms of technical infrastructure related to electrician training.

As part of our philosophy of continuous improvements, we introduced the solar training program in 2016

Currently, our electrician training program is available at 500+ centers along the length and breadth of the country including aspirational areas like Mewat, Haryana, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, Purnia, Bihar, Osmanabad, Maharashtra, Kalahandi, Odisha, Haridwar, Uttarakhand.

Since the inception of the program in 2009, more than 1,89,170 youth have been trained under this program including 6948 female electricians.

Success Stories

Neelam Singh

She has not only sharpened her domain skill at SEDI but also worked on functional English, basic computer, and life skills which are an integral part of the training program.

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Sonali Bhadoria

Sonali says after joining ABSF she became more confident and her speech, her skills have increased tremendously. She would actively get involved in all the competitions and classroom activities.

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Ajay Kumar Mallah

I learn grooming and life skills, which are still helping me in my job, my trainer perfectly trained in Electrical and also learn RAC during multi-skills.

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Partner Testimonials

Starting in 2010 with a couple of centers, the partnership between GMR Varalakshmi Foundation and SEIF has grown in the last decade to include more than 7 centers across the country training around 700 youth every year. GMRVF greatly values the partnership with SEIF as it comes with relevant technical inputs right from the industry and curriculum to regular train the trainer Programmes to establishing the lab. With regular upgradation of the lab, curriculum and TOTs, Schneider makes sure that the trainees receive the most industry relevant and updated training. Regular exposure visits to Schneider plants and linkages to placements have further meant a win-win for SEIF and GMRVF

Avanish Kumar
GMR, Varalakshmi Foundation

The strategic collaboration with Schneider India foundation has helped us to offer quality focused training to our students. The training content is comprehensive and is well suited to cater to the industry needs. It can be labelled as the gold standard for the Electrician training program in the Indian vocational education sector.

Mayuk Dasgupta
Head Projects & Alliances, Aditya Birla Skills Foundation

It is indeed pleasure for us to be a partner of Schneider Foundation. The quality of Electrical lab provided was of excellent quality, it is not only helping us in skill training of needy youth from rural area but also provide opportunity to handle the quality product from Schneider Electric. Training of trainers was remarkable; the trainers are demonstrating their skills not only in their domain knowledge but also on the training delivery skill. This partnership of Ambuja Cement Foundation and Schneider Electric Foundation has been grown over the years and will flourish in future. I am sure it will help in transformation of lives of many youth and their career.

Ravi Nayse
GM (Skill Training), Ambuja Cement Foundation

Centurion University and its social entrepreneurial outreach, Gram Tarang Employability Training Services is a proud partner of Schneider Foundation. With centers mostly in remote, disadvantaged regions of Odisha, Jharkhand & North East, we have setup 5 electrician skill centers & 1 center for skilling in renewable energy with support from Schneider and have successfully trained & placed over 1,000 youth over the past 4 years.