SKILLING RURAL YOUTH OF KHURJA
At the completion of the course, SDC Khurja provides internship opportunities for the trainees. Chief Medical Surgeon of Jatiya Government Hospital Bulandshahr, Dr. Ajeet Wawa visited SDC Khurja for hiring Interns.
100 Trainees were selected at Jatiya Government Hospital, Bulandshahr, Dharpa Govt. Hospital, and Govt. Hospital Bulandshahr.
With the internships, our trainees would get hands-on experience on their subject making them better prepared for future jobs.
244 Trainees are better prepared with Soft Skills in their stock
Session on Interview Skills
Learning how to master Public Speaking Skills
Candidates with strong Public Speaking Skills are in demand for many occupations and are highly valued by employers.
To equip the trainees with these soft skills, sessions on Public Speaking were held on 2nd March 2022.
Trainees learned strategies for becoming a Better Public Speaker, and calming nerves that are associated with Public Speaking
Session on Interview Skills
Learning how to participate in Group Discussion
Many Recruiters use group discussion (GD) to test a candidate’s communication skills, leadership skills, test topic knowledge, and lateral thinking of a candidate.
To make the participants at home and be successful in job interviews, mock group discussions were held on 10th March 2022. Topics for mock GD were Elections, Women Empowerment, Corruption, etc.
70 participants joined the GD, to hone leadership qualities, enhance their depth of knowledge, and brush up on communication skills,
Session on Interview Skills
Resume Writing and Presentation Skills
A resume is the crucial first impression one makes on recruiters. It’s a make-or-break introduction that could either make them shortlist a candidate or toss it in the heap of hopeless rejects. A CV’s sole purpose, at least initially, is to bag a job interview.
Teaching the participants how to make an effective resume, a session was held on 15th March 2022. 78 trainees participated in the session. A competition was held for the best resumes and prizes were awarded to the best performers.
To mark the culmination of the 'Selling Skills Course, a certificate distribution ceremony was held at SDC on 5th February, 2022.
25 trainees, who successfully completed the course were awarded certificates by Mr. Rajul Chaturvedi, Selling Skills Coach and Author
7 Steps of An Effective Sales Call, an FMCG Salesman’s bible authored by Rajul Chaturvedi was also given to all the trainees.
An Orientation programme for the new batch was held, wherein 21 prospective trainees were present.
250 Trainees Adds Soft Skills to Their Repertoire
In the modern workplace, one needs more than technical skills to be successful in career. Today’s employers seek candidates who can perform their jobs well but who can also fit into the company culture and interact with other employees.Personal mastery of soft skills leads to improved performance at workplace.
To equip the trainees with soft skills, SDC Khurja is conducting ongoing soft skills sessions for the trainees of the Centre. 4 sessions were held on 4, 18, 24 & 28 January, 2022 on Anger management and Stress management, where around 250 trainees participated. Trainees from Paramedical courses also participated to enhance their life skills.
Ms. Priya G, Master Trainer, conducted the sessions.
These sessions empowered the trainees with healthy coping mechanisms to use in frustrating situations and prevent them from physical and emotional exhaustion.
Market Visit of MasterG Fashion Designing Course Trainees
For any business to grow and thrive, supply chain assessment is very important. It is also essential for risk mitigation as well. To make the trainees of the Fashion Designing Course running at SDC Khurja aware of raw material sourcing, they were taken for a market visit to Sanjay Colony, Okhla, and Govindpuri, New Delhi where they explored and learnt about different materials used in their trade.
They also got a first-hand exposure to marketing techniques, merchandising and display, and learned what's trending in fashion as well.
With such market visits, we try to give the best practical knowledge to our trainees to make sure that they become successful when they pass out and start their business.
200 Trainees Learn to be Effective Communicators
People tend to take the communication process for granted. We generally figure that the communication between two or more people is no big deal. It just works. However, the reality is very different-the process of communication is actually impressively complex.
Considering its importance, SDC Khurja conducted a 2-day Life Skill Session for Communication at SDC for the trainees of the Centre. Held on 16th and 19th November, 2021, the sessions were attended by 200 participants in 5 batches.
Ms. Priya G, Master Trainer, conducted the sessions.
The participants were taken through the many aspects & principles of communication and were enthralled by the power of good communication.
At the end of the sessions, the participants felt they have transformed to be better communicators.
SDC would be organizing many more Life Skill sessions to enhance skills and empower the trainees of SDC to be successful in life.
3 Gold, 8 Silver and 4 Bronze Medals
In the 23rd Annual District Athlete Championship-2021, held on 9th November 2021 at Tanda Stadium, Bulandshahr organized by the District Athletics Association Bulandshahr, athletes from Col Gautam Academy for Armed Forces excelled at the fields, giving us many moments to celebrate and make us proud.
Team Col Gautam Academy for Armed Forces ranked 3rd with an overall 15 medals haul, an all-time best performance.
With this big achievement we are now headed for the State level Championship.
See you there!
Mr. Naresh Rawat, our Physical Trainer at Col. Gautam Academy stood 7th, (All India Position) at Lucknow City Half Marathon (21 kms) held on 17th October 2021. He not only made us proud with his feat, he is a leading the trainees by example, by imbibing them with a spirit to win.
Congratulations Naresh Sir for your achievement.
Your win is our win.
Very delighted to see the Centre, its infrastructure, its curriculum, and its people—Mr. Rajiswar Giri, on his visit interacted very positively with the trainees sharing lots of insight and information. He was impressed by the MasterG programme, which empowers rural women in making them professionals. He appreciated the role SDC is playing in economic development in rural areas.
We are thankful to Mr. Giri for his kind visit.
Your interaction enriched us.
Mohd. Noman, a former trainee of MasterG Fashion Designing Course at SDC Khurja, is now training women in garment designing in Khargone village in the outskirts of Indore. His protégés, all rural women, are designing outfits to be showcased by professional models on ramp in a fashion show to be organized by Times of India. They are designing more than 20 dresses. The training Noman received at SDC certainly empowered him to empower many others.
We congratulate Mohd. Nonam for his extraordinary stewardship as we see our success in him.
We want to see many more Nonams springing out of SDC and becoming successful in their professional lives.
Ms. Namita Gautam, Managing Trustee, Sleepwell Foundation with the Children during her visit at SDC.
Children and youth, urban or rural, are the future of our country. To bring the best out of them, they need support and nurturing. SDC, set in rural areas, is committed to bring educational and skilling facilities within their reach. At the Centre, children and teens are taught English and Computer from an early age to make them proficient and competent later in life. At SDC, we are developing their future.
