Ford India inaugurates Automotive Student Service Educational Training centre in Mumbai

Ford India has partnered with Don Bosco Centre of Learning with an aim to create skilled professionals for the automobile industry. The carmaker has inaugurated its fourth Automotive Student Service Educational Training (ASSET) Centre at St Joseph’s Industrial Training Institute in Kurla, Mumbai.

With this initiative, Ford has set up an exclusive technical training corner within the premises of St Joseph’s Industrial Training Institute, to train students on Ford technology as part of Motor Mechanic Vehicle (MMV) curriculum.

Commenting on the occasion, PK Umashankar, Vice-President, Customer Service Operations, Ford India, said, “After the successful launch in Pune last week, we are delighted to come to Mumbai to provide world class automotive training to students in the state of Maharashtra. We are focused to make Ford ASSET program the primary source of trained pool of technicians for Ford dealers and look to expand to more cities in the coming year. With the launch of the program, we have truly created a real asset that will not only help students with better growth and employment prospects but also the automobile industry with skilled workforce.”

Students at the training centre will get opportunities to engage with master technician/In-house trainers through special sessions that will be organised by local dealership, Bhavna Ford, Mumbai. On successful completion of the course students will be certified to service Ford cars thus making them eligible to work in Ford service network across the country.

The ASSET training facility will be a tri-party initiative involving Ford, the dealer and the ITI. Ford also plans to launch 10 such centres by 2015 for the students across the country.