The Automotive Skills Development Council is India’s first dedicated sector skills council for the Automobile industry, founded in March 2011 under Societies Registration Act 1860. It has been setup with its key objective to initiate, carry out, execute, implement, and assist activities towards skill development for the Indian Automobile Sector and meeting the entire value chain’s requirement of appropriately trained manpower in quantity and quality on a sustained and evolving basis. 

ASDC is Promoted by the Automobile industry through Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), Automotive Component Manufacturers Association (ACMA) and Federation of Automobile Dealers Association (FADA) and Government of India represented by Department of Heavy Industry and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). ASDC has been granted the status of Awarding Body by National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET).

Our Vision & Mission

To continually develop and upgrade Automotive Skills for Higher value additions (higher value addition through skilling will facilitate capital creation, leading to more economic activity and consequent additional jobs.) Making skill aspirational and integrated with academic pat hways.Honouring and celebrating the skilling achievements

ASDC provides prospects and a platform to all young generations who wish to work in the automotive sector by skilling them through a variety of skill development programs in association with industry training partners across the country. ASDC works towards capacity building by bridging gaps and upgrading the skills of technical and non-technical workers engaged in organized/ unorganized segments of the Automotive & Allied Sectors.

ASDC is contributing to nation-building through Skill Development in Automotive, especially at the times when the country's automobile sector is experiencing growth. It has also been the exodus of quality manpower to allied sectors, changing technology with increased variability in production parameters, and transformations in international automobile markets.

ASDC is continuous working on the following paraments:-

Standards (QPs & Content)

• Standardized 104 job roles based on industry requirement
• Content & curriculum developed based on QP/NOS
• Special Focus on developing content for online learning

Training of Trainer and Assessor

• Develop training delivery skills of the trainers
• Improve the overall quality of training and assessment

Affiliation/ Industry Partner

• Affiliated TP/TC can commence NSQF aligned training
• Facilitate collaboration on various government scheme & projects

Assessment & Certification

• NSQF aligned assessment by ASDC certified assessors
• GoI recognized certificate, enhancing credibility of the training program

Placements

• Organize placement drive to facilitate placement of certified candidates
• Industry to facilitate placement and apprenticeship training opportunities through B2B forums & workshops

WorldSkills & India Skills

• Supporting 4 skills at the WorldSkills and India Skills competitions
• Won a bronze medal in Prototype Modeling at WorldSkills 2017
• Won 3 Medallion of Excellence at WorldSkills 2019

ASDC is a non-profit organization registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. ASDC has 10 years’ rich experience to implement the various types of Skilling projects with Govt, State govt, Industry and international organizations with Transparency and CSR compliance. ASDC certified total ASDC is well connected with the Auto Industry as well as Training partners. ASDC has over 240 training partners, 800 certified assessors, 14 expert groups with 295 industry experts and over 2000 training centres. ASDC is working in various skill development projects such as:-

• Upskilling and Reskilling projects
• Women Empowerment projects
• Livelihood Projects
• Digital and Entrepreneurship Development
• Road safety
• Skill development at school level

Skill Development project under CSR :As per Point No. (ii) under schedule VII of Companies Act, 2013-“Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocational skills, especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently-abled and livelihood enhancement projects are covered under CSR activities.

National Policy on Skilling and provisions for CSR through Sector Skill Councils (SSCs): As per Clause 6.13 of “Governance Structure And Financing” under National Policy for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, 2015 “To attract funds from industry, companies will be encouraged to spend at least 25% of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds on skill development initiatives directly or through NSDF. Further, the industry should earmark at least 2% of its payroll bill (including for contract labor) for skill development initiatives in their respective sectors. These funds can be channelized for skill development activities either through respective SSCs or through NSDF”.