Aura~Vocational Institute aims to provide access to sustainable quality vocational training, by appropriate use of infrastructure, technologies, and work experience based methodologies, ensuring expansion in opportunities for gainful employment and entrepreneurship development to meet the challenges of skilled human resource for various sectors of our economy.
To start with , the Aura~Hospitality Training Institute ( Aura ~ HTI ) has been launched under the banner of Aura Institutions Private Limited- a registered company incorporated under Companies Act, 1956, with the Registrar of Companies, NCT of Delhi and Haryana.
Aura ~ HTI has state-of-the art infrastructure expert faculty , well designed training material , and opportunities for on-the-job training . We are committed to provide the basic ingredients to the trainee to succeed in his / her professional life. Being successful and achieving the goal will , however, depend on your extending us full cooperation in our endeavor.
Often it is claimed that we possess a huge pool of technical manpower. However, this large number may not reflect the correct picture. Only about 2 % of our workforce are equipped with a duly certified formal vocational training as against 75 and 80 percent in USA, Canada, Germany, and China. Also the competency level of our workforce is not meeting the fast changing needs & expectations of the industry and the community.
The Indian hospitality industry directly contributes about 2% to the national GDP. The overall contribution of hospitality sector to the national economy is estimated at 5.3%. India is expected to be the third fastest growing nation in terms of hospitality sector over the next decade, with an expected annual growth of about 8% up to 2016. Hospitality has clear benefits to the economy in terms of employment and economic opportunities for making a larger contribution to Indian GDP. According to an estimate, our hospitality sector has created 388 lakh (38.8 million) direct and indirect jobs. The gains are not only limited to big giants. Millions of urban or rural folks are some how or other employed in this sector, and benefiting from its growth. However, the dynamism of the hospitality sector has also thrown up fresh new challenges about the ways to reap the full benefits . There is an escapable need for re-engineering the hospitality business. Our biggest constrain is severe shortage of skilled workforce . Providing quality education in various areas of hospitality is, therefore, of significant importance . The clarion call is for creating more and more opportunities for need-based vocational training of our workforce to keep pace with the quality of services meeting global standards, and, competitiveness.
The Government of India has approved a National Skill Development Policy linking education and skill training to ‘employability’ and increasing ‘functional literacy’. The policy aims at empowering all individuals to enable them to get access to decent employment and to promote inclusive national growth. Further, the policy promotes public-private partnership to ensure that the needs of the industry are met.
In pursuance to above policy , the Ministry of Labour and Employment have launched in May 2007 a scheme namely “ Skill Development Initiative Scheme ( SDIS) ” in Public-Private-Partnership mode ( PPP) for imparting vocational training and testing the competencies of one million persons over a period of 5 years and thereafter 1 million per year . The hospitality sector is included in SDIS.
The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has launched Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) which aims to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed poor through encouraging the setting up of self-employment ventures or provision of wage employment . Vocational education is an important component of this scheme. Here too , the hospitality sector has a big role to play , being the most prominent employment generating community based activity.