Maharashtra Government is thinking of altering its scheme to groom tribal girls into airhostesses after it was found to have no takers,The state is revisiting the scheme and this time has included plans to train 500 tribal girls as travel consultants and customer care representatives.
“We are now planning to train tribal girls as customer care representatives and travel consultants. The earlier module of airhostess training and hotel management training will also remain in the scheme,” a senior Tribal Development Corporation official said. The state government plans to train nearly 500 tribal through privately-run institutes as air hostesses, cabin crew, hospitality managers, travel consultants and so on.
The state is expecting to spend around Rs 1 lakh on each student and the training will take place through private centres in Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad and Nagpur. Each of the centres will train nearly 100 students and the state is hoping that the estimated cost will be around Rs 5 crore.
In 2007, the state government, replicating a central government scheme, had decided to train tribal girls as airhostesses.
Nearly 100 tribal girls from across the state were trained under the scheme. However, few of them managed to get jobs in the airline industry as air hostesses.
A miniscule number were, however, absorbed as ground handlers. Many of them had also got jobs as receptionists.
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