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ITCOT Consultancy and Services Limited is a premier management consulting organisation, having over 30 years experience in providing entrepreneurship, skill development and several other capacity building programmes for various targets groups. Special projects for Skill Development of Rural BPL youths under SGSY are designed to equip the unemployed rural youth from the BPL households with marketable skills, which would enable them to secure placement in the industry. ITCOT is the project implementing agency and it intends to deliver short-term job-oriented skill development programmes in the states of Tamilnadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India is supporting this ITCOT led initiative and National Institute of Rural Development is the Project Monitoring Agency. The Specific objectives of the project are:

a) To identify and select rural BPL youth in the age group of 18 -35 years who are in need of employment

b) To provide job-oriented training programmes in different market driven skills and enhance their skills to make them employable

c) Providing employment to the suitable trained manpower

d) To ensure participation of women and provide 40 per cent women in the fold of job –employment through training and development

ITCOT is also one of the premier organisations in the implementation of government schemes and programmes in different part of the country. ITCOT, under the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India is the project implementing agency of the SGSY special project. It will train rural BPL youth in different skill trades. SGSY has a definite objective of improving the family incomes of the rural poor and, at the same time, providing for a flexibility of design at the grassroots level to suit the local needs and resources.

The objective of each special project would be to ensure a time-bound programme for bringing a specific number of BPL families above the poverty line through wage employment in industries and business.

Contact Details
Name of Organization/Institution ITCOT Consultancy and Services Limited.
Legal Status of the Organisation Company
Registration Details of the Organisation Registered under companies act 1956
Head Office Address No. 50 A, Greams Road, Chennai 600006
Phone Tel : 044 2829 0324, 2829 4365
Fax 044 2829 3512
Website www.itcot.com
Name of the Organisation Head Mr. S.R Nageswaran
Designation Managing Director
Email srn@itcot.com

Project Details.
Number of Projects Sanctioned 1
Total Outlay of the projects sanctioned Rs. 1494.3 lacs
Total Contribution of MoRD Rs. 1120.73 lacs
Total Number of Beneficiaries covered for training under Projects sanctioned 7860
States Covered under all the projects Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Puducherry
Number of CompletedProjects 0
Beneficiaries Covered under Completed Projects 0
Total Outlay of Completed Projects 0
States in which Projects have been completed 0
Number of Ongoing Projects 1
Beneficiaries Covered under Ongoing Projects 7860
Total Outlay of Ongoing Projects Rs. 1494.3 lacs
States in which Projects are ongoing Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Puducherry