It is this belief that moved the company to become heavily involved in the "Public Private Partnership (PPP)" training program in India. This program is being staged as a jointly run project with the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development in Berlin. Mayer & Cie.'s long-standing and successful industrial partner in India, Batliboi Ltd., has been a committed local contributor to the PPP project. Although the German Government's official support program has now come to an end, both Mayer & Cie. and Batliboi Ltd. will both be continuing to lend their support to the training centers.
The Dattajirao Kadam Technical Education (D.K.T.E.) Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute in Ichalkaranji, one of the two PPP training centers, will be continuing to run its training courses for skilled knitting factory operators in the future under its own steam. In a show of support for the important work of the DKTE, Mayer & Cie. has donated an MV4-3.2 circular knitting machine to the society for training purposes.
The certificate making over ownership of this highperformance single-jersey circular knitting machine to the DKTE was presented by Oliver Scharf, Head of Sales at Mayer & Cie., on March 22nd.
The second institute which has so far operated as a training center under the PPP scheme in Tirupur will now be run by Mayer & Cie. representative Batliboi Ltd., flanked by the support of Mayer & Cie. In Tirupur too, students will have the opportunity to ideally link theory with practice on a Mayer & Cie. circular knitting machine.
The two training centers together offer a total of
24 students every semester the opportunity to become certified as qualified operators in the field of knitting technology. Since the year 2001, when the Tirupur center was launched, followed by the DKTE in Ichalkaranji in 2002, a total of 120 young people have successfully completed training courses here. The aim of the course is to ensure that operators are able to effecttively maximize on the opportunities offered by ultra-modern high-tech machines through modern technology transfer – so that circular knitting machine factories have skilled manpower needed for more productive and competitive operation.
Given the success of its experience in India, Mayer & Cie. continues to look positively on this type of support program. Alongside its Indian involvement, the company also intends to back comparable projects in other countries where there are similar plans for cooperative support by the German government.
