By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Mr Pankaj K Satija, Managing Director, Tata Steel Mining Ltd has been unanimously elected as Chairman of the Skill Council for Mining Sector (SCMS), during the 9th Annual General body meeting held at FIMI house, New Delhi .
Pankaj is an alumni of IIT ( ISM) Dhanbad – 1994 batch and has been associated with Tata Steel since 2002 where he has handled many roles in strategy, planning, operations and regulatory affairs. Pankaj has been a founder member in establishing SCMS and till now he was contributing to SCMS as a very active board member. On taking the charge as Chairman , Pankaj expressed his gratitude to the board members for the opportunity given and pledged that he will put his all efforts to make stake holders more aware about skilling ecosystem and strengthen the activities undertaken by SCMS.
SCMS, promoted by FIMI and supported by Ministry of Mines, was established in December 2013 as the apex body to train and meet the requirement of skilled workforce for the mining industry in PPP mode, setup by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE). MSDE vide its notification has authorized SCMS as a non-statutory agency for certifying the mining workforce in India. SCMS is a registered company under Section 8 of Companies’ Act 2013 and an awarding body recognized and regulated by NCVET under the aegis of MSDE. The governing board of SCMS includes representatives from MoM, MoC, GSI, IBM, academia like IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, CIMFR and major mining companies.
The core activity of SCMS is to formulate the National Occupational Standard (NOS) for different job roles aligned to National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) notified by Government of India, in December 2013. SCMS has carried out Occupational Mapping and Skills Gap studies for sector. It has developed skills competency standards and qualification packs, benchmarking it with national and international standards for operator level job roles both for opencast and underground mines and created competency standards and curriculum aligned to NSQF levels.
SCMS has been delivering many skilling projects at MOIL, NLC India, NCL, NALCO, NMDC, HCL, HZL (Vedanta), Tata Steel, IMFA, Sasan Power as well as catering to many livelihood projects sponsored by central/ state govt and District Mineral Foundation Trusts chiefly at Angul (Odisha) and Latehar (Jharkhand).
