Through NETAP We Want To Bridge The Gap Between Education And Employment

TeamLease, one of India’s leading human resource service companies, is a part of NETAP, an apprenticeship programme in a Public Private Partnership endeavour initiated along with CII and NSDC under the National Employability Enhancement Mission of the Ministry of HRD (AICTE). Sumit Kumar, Vice President, NETAP, TeamLease Services, elaborates on the need to create talent to support Ayushman Bharat, role of apprentices in bringing more efficiencies to any organisation, and how apprenticeships has picked up in both pharma and healthcare, in an exclusive tete-a-tete with Lakshmipriya Nair

- Lakshmipriya Nair

Team Lease is one of the partners in the National Employability through Apprenticeship (NETAP). Tell us more about it and the impact it intends to create?

NETAP is an apprenticeship program offered by Team Lease Skills University based on National Employability Enhancement Mission (NEEM) guidelines notified by Ministry of HRD. Vision of NETAP is to bridge the skill deficit in industry by enhancing the employability quotient of the youth through apprenticeships. There is a skill shortage of 127 million in the industry, and what better way to overcome than through apprenticeships which is a tried and tested model by evolved economies of the world. The impact we want to achieve through NETAP is to bridge the gap between education and employment; and make learning more effective and impactful that makes the output job-ready. We do this through blended form of learning where on the job training is the core that gets blended with either an online learning or an onsite classroom learning mechanism or both. The output is far more productive and the employers have a better ROI against buying talent.

What are the major benefits of the apprenticeship model for the life sciences sector? How is it a good model for up-skilling and recruitment of new talent?

Following are the benefits of apprenticeship for the life sciences sector;