For Immediate Release

NSDC Udaan announces its largest recruitment drive in Srinagar; looking at recruiting over 2000 candidates from the valley

Over 15 corporates across India head for Srinagar for a massive recruitment drive Corporates from banking, finance, hospitality, education, IT/ITES, security sectors looking

for fresh recruits from the Valley A total of over 2,000 offers are expected to be made over a period of two days

Udaan, a special initiative for Jammu & Kashmir, today announced its largest recruitment drive under the scheme that will take place in Srinagar on 18th – 19th November, 2014. The drive will see over 15 large corporates heading for the Valley to recruit over 2000 graduates and post-graduates in a wide range of sectors, including banking, finance, hospitality, education, IT/ITES and security.

This is the single largest recruitment drive conducted under Udaan since its inception in November 2011. Some of India’s largest corporations are participating in this massive recruitment drive. Corporates like Genpact, IL&FS, CMC, Reliance HR Services, Accenture, Ratnakar Bank and others will be in Srinagar for recruiting fresh talents during this drive.

Under Udaan, participating corporates hire recruits, providing off-site training and upon successful completion of the training make job offers. Since inception nearly 10,500 youth of Jammu and Kashmir have been selected for Udaan.

Commenting on this historic moment, Dilip Chenoy, MD and CEO, NSDC, said, “We are grateful to every single Udaan partner who will be participating in this massive recruitment drive. The timing of this drive could not have been better, considering the recent natural disaster the people in the valley had to suffer. Opportunities such as these help the youth of J&K in securing gainful employment across India. I am also happy that this drive coincides with Udaan’s third anniversary. I urge more corporates to take part in Udaan and would like to wish my very best to both the aspiring recruits and the employers.”

The recruitment drive will be preceded by a seminar on 17th November to help corporates understand the talent pool in the Jammu & Kashmir. The seminar and the recruitment drive will take place at Sher-I Kashmir International Conference Centre in Srinagar.

About Udaan

Under a Special Industry Initiative, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and Ministry of Home Affairs has been mandated to work with the corporate sector in bringing about a positive change in the employment and skills space of Jammu and Kashmir.

The special industry initiative, known as “Udaan”, targets the youth of J&K, graduates, postgraduates and 3 years engineering diploma holders, who are seeking global and local opportunities. Udaan aims to provide skills to 40,000 youth over a period of 5 years in high growth sectors.

Udaan has two objectives

• To provide exposure to the graduates and post graduates of Jammu and Kashmir to the best of corporate across India

• To provide corporate India with exposure to the rich talent pool available in the state

About NSDC:

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a unique Public Private Partnership (PPP), with 51 per cent equity held by private sector and the balance 49 per cent by the Union Government. Formed in 2010, NSDC is a professionally run not-for-profit company that includes 31 Sector Skill Councils and over 150 training partners with over 2500+ training centres spread across 366 districts in the country. NSDC is mandated to skill 150 million Indians by 2022. For more information on NSDC kindly visit our website, and Facebook page:www.nsdcindia.orghttps://www.facebook.com/NSDCIndiaOfficialwww.twitter.com/NSDCIndia Bint AbbasCo-ordinator, Udaanbint.abbas@nsdcindia.org+91-9871013307

Garima Misra / Niren Yadav+91-9910106993/ +91-8800447367Garima.misra@ogilvy.com/ Niren.yadav@ogilvy.com