THSC awards Primero skills with Best Social Impact Award

Primero Skills awarded as the best social impact company in India for the third time in a row in last 4 years

The Tourism & Hospitality Skill Council (THSC) mapped Primero’s initiatives in the hospitality sector of training over 14,000 youth with over 60% females for 282000 hours.

The initiative resulted in over 8800 first time jobs in complete households.

Jayanta Das-led Primero is a JV Partner with Mumbai based Torus Primero Edutech Limited and has provided skill training inside Police Station Zones across several states

Delhi, 19th July 2023: The Tourism & Hospitality Skill Council (THSC) today recognised and felicitated Primero Skills & Training for the impact of their skilling initiative in Delhi at the hands of Mr. Rajan Bahadur , CEO, THSC

Primero has worked extensively with Police stations across Delhi, Chandigarh, Kashmir, Mizoram and Uttar Pradesh for providing skill training inside the police stations.

Their state of the art Yuva training centre has been operational since 2022. It has been recognised by Hon’ble LG Govt of Delhi along with Secretary, MSDE and Commissioner Delhi Police for producing hundreds of job beneficiaries from the training centre with over 22 top hospitality brands in India hiring from the Yuva Centre.

Primero at present executing one of the largest projects of training 1020 inmates in partnership with THSC inside India’ s largest jail. This is one of the largest training size ever to have been undertaken at one go in any restricted zone ever in India. Launched by Honble LG of Delhi in the first quarter of this year it has been widely acclaimed by stakeholders including industry leaders who have frequently visited the training programme to experience first hand the quality of delivery.

Mr. Rajan Bahadur , CEO, THSC said, “Primero has done outstanding work in the area of skill development . We are happy to partner and support pan India in their special projects with a pronounced social impact in exclusive sectors including jails in the country and become change agents at grass root level. Such initiatives not only change individual lives but end up transforming our entire society. “

Commenting on the development, Mr. Jayanta Das, CEO, Torus Primero, said, “We are delighted to get recognised for the efforts done by our team at the grass root level. With constantly evolving job dynamics and a globally competitive environment, we aim to build and foster skills across the country to the most underprivileged section of the society. Our aim is to provide vocational courses that will empower and create future-ready youth in our country and bring down the menace of crime due to unemployment. We would like to thank the Police force across states that have made this initiative possible”

We have also been awarded the best social impact company in India for the third time now Mr. Jayanta added.

ABOUT PRIMERO (www.primeroskills.com):

Primero started its operations in Assam and Mizoram in December 2015, focusing on training youths in the hospitality and agricultural sectors. Primero trains people in sectors as varied as hospitality, tea plantation, bamboo farming, steel, health & beauty, and wellness.