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Skilled welder shortage looms in India

By November 25, 2015 4:23 pm IST

  The Indian Institute of Welding (IIW) has petitioned the Prime Minister’s Office and Union Minister for Skill Development Rajiv Pratap Rudy about shortfall in availability of skilled welders and gas cutters across the nation. Growth-led increased job openings and replacing the retiring workforce (over 2015-2022) accounts for a shortage of 1.2 million welding professionals including welders, cutters, fitters, equipment operators, and also engineers and inspectors. In fact, today a number of project contractors have imported welding and cutting operators from China, Russia and East European countries.  “Our country is in a dire need of overhaul of the current practices and must embrace and adopt new technologies to ensure the 12th Plan growth targets,” R Srinivasan, President of IIW said at a seminar held in Mumbai recently.
Domestic 12th Plan targets of adding 90,000 MW power generation capacities and creating new construction assets of 52 lakh crore may all get derailed for India’s lack of sufficient skilled workers. The national mission of building 20 kilometres of new highways each day is already falling behind. The ‘Make-in-India’ campaign has surged the growth prospects of manufacturing sector but hue and cry of perennial skilled labour shortage have become vociferous in the automobile, construction, power and defence sectors. Skilled welding professionals at all levels; pipe and plate welders, supervisors and welding engineers continue to be in short supply. The union government’s skill development machinery which targets to skill over 500 million Indians by 2022 must work to overcome the severe shortage in employable skills of the Indian workforce.

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