Chennai, July 04: The Small Industries Service Institute, Chennai, has entered into an agreement with private sector Life Insurance Company Tata AIG to train unemployed youth as insurance advisors. The programme, "Creative Intercrop Career Opportunity", would ensure self-employment for youth ready to take up new ventures, V S Karunakaran, Director, SISI and Sushanto Mukerjee, Zone Head (South) of Tata AIG, told reporters here today.
Under the MoU, SISI would identify youth who could be trained to sell insurance in accordance with IRDA regulations and Tata AIG will train and recruit them as advisors after they get licence from IRDA.
To begin with, 60 candidates would be selected for training after an objective entrance test, Karunakaran said, adding initially the programme would be confined to Chennai and later extended to other parts of the state.
SISI would launch a month-long programme to develop entrepreneurs ensuring self-employment in biotech ventures from 21st of this month, Karunakaran said. Bureau Report