Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company and leader in commercial vehicles across segments, has entered into long-term partnership with Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS, Pilani) to create a platform for a series of technical education programs to build world-class technical skills to not only bridge present skill gaps that prevail in the automotive industry but also to prepare a future-ready organization.
This is a first Industry-Academia partnership for Tata Motors with a leading Institution like BITS, Pilani to develop technical talent at multiple levels in the Organisation.
Gajendra Chandel, chief human resource officer, Tata Motors, and professor G. Sundar, BITS director (Off Campus Programs & Industry Engagement), signed a five year MOU, with an objective to ensure the engineering programs are aimed at meeting the requirements of automotive industry.
The first set of programmes to roll-out of this association will be a customised Masters as well Bachelor's Degree in Technology for Automotive Engineering, which will run across various locations in India.
Shares of the company gained Rs 2.4, or 0.74%, to trade at Rs 326.00. The total volume of shares traded was 79,156 at the BSE (9.56 a.m., Tuesday).