Concerted effort on up-skilling of construction workers have contributed to our brand and business growth

August 2018

During the year, we launched a new product - Everest Super - targeted at rural customers and priced at a 25 per cent premium to our regular cement ro...

Tags: Manish Sanghi, Everest Industries, Fibre cement roofing sheets, Roof Master Training Programme, GST, Everest Durasteel Roofs, Industrial, Commercial Pre-engineered buildings, NSDC, CIDC

An Uphill Road Ahead

July 2018

Out of about nine lakh construction equipment operators in India, only 9,000 operators are certified by Infrastructure Equipment Skill Council (IESC...

Tags: Construction Equipment, IESC, Anand Sundaresan, ICEMA, Skill development, NSDC, RPL, L&T, JCB, Volvo, PMKVY

CREDAI becomes the direct training partner of National Skill Development Corporation

June 2018

CREDAI's Skill Development Programme, which has trained more than 1 lakh construction workers since 2011, is a rare example of an industry associatio...

Tags: CREDAI Skill Development Programme, NSDC, Jaxay Shah, Skill development, India Skills 2016, World Skill competition 2017

SKILL CRISIS: Only 4 per cent of the current 32 million workers skilled

May 2018

"We are due to see a surge in construction rates in India as it overtakes Japan to become the world's third largest construction market by 2021," say...

Tags: Construction, Global Construction Perspectives, Graham Robinson, Supreme Court, NSDC, Manish Kumar, Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, CIDC, Neerja Singh, FICCI, Construction Workers, Ajit Gulabchand, CSDCI, Rajeev Bhatnagar

Infrastructure Equipment Skill Council elects Schwing Stetter India’s Anand Sundaresan as Chairman

September 2017

The Infrastructure Equipment Skill Council (IESC), promoted by the Indian Construction Equipment Manufacturers Association (ICEMA), subsidised by the...

Tags: IESC, ICEMA, NSDC, Anand Sundaresan, Schwing Stetter India, EFSI

Anand Sundaresan is new IESC Chairman

August 2017

At the 11th governing body meeting of the Infrastructure Equipment Skill Council (IESC) held recently, Anand Sundaresan, Vice-Chairman and Managing D...

Tags: IESC, Schwing-Stetter India, Larsen & Toubro, ICEMA, NSDC, Confederation of Indian Industry

NHIDCL-NSDC to train over a 1,000 people under PMKVY

June 2017

Construction workers in the North Eastern states are being trained to handle equipment used in the construction sector under the Pradhan Mantri Kaush...

Tags: Construction workers, PMKVY, Nitin Gadkari, Road Transport, Highways, Shipping, KMC Construction, Oriental Structural Engineers, Junior Backhoe Loader, Escorts, NSDC, NHIDCL

Equipment India awards & ceo forum 2017

May 2017

It was 6.15 p.m. with 15 minutes more to go for the mega event of the infrastructure equipment industry. Meanwhile, the Viceroy Hall at the heritage ...

Tags: 4th Annual Equipment India Awards, Lutyen Zone, Claridges Hotel, Infrastructure equipment, Budget, Dr S Vasudevan, KPMG, Manish Pant, NSDC, IESC, ICEMA, Apollo Tyres, IIFCL, Wheel loaders, and Doosan Bobcat India