The worldwide coronavirus outbreak has shown a new reality—the want for contactless delivery. It is since of this that the future of jobs and professions in the warehousing and logistics space is increasing more than ever just before. According to a report by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), India will want about 28.4 million provide chain workers in its booming transportation, logistics, warehousing and packaging sector. The want of the hour is a vocationally skilled workforce backed with actual-world sensible know-how and a deeper understanding of the market.
Sanjay Tiwari, co-founder of 21CC Education, has constructed a platform that addresses the pressing want for upskilling and reskilling employees in the logistics and warehouse market. It aims to empower 25 million men and women more than the next 5 years by assisting them advance their careers and allow corporations to accelerate their profitability with a future-prepared workforce.
“21CC Education was founded in January 2019 in response to the changing face of logistics and transportation,” says Tiwari. “The accelerated growth track of the sector was facing disruptions owing to lack of skills. Issues like unorganised logistics and packaging operations as well as a lack of administrative capabilities continue to hold the sector back. As logistics gains increasing significance, entering an era of unprecedented change, we recognised the urgent need for scalable and sustainable skill development solutions that could significantly help re-engineer the Indian logistics sector,” he adds.
21CC Education’s holistic mobile platform is backed by an skilled group across Netherlands and Mumbai. Tiwari says, “Our library offers industry-relevant, engaging and adaptive learning content with more than 110 e-learning modules, over 50 courses and eight interactive games, all focused on logistics and transportation sectors. We have worked with market leaders in the logistics space like DB Schenker, DHL Global Forwarding, DP World, Sarjak Container Lines and the Port of Amsterdam to serve their training and recruitment needs.”
21CC Education’s coaching content is also acquiring favour with organisations wanting to make social influence by way of their CSR initiatives. Aligning their CSR projects with talent creating drives, 21CC Education is partnering with quite a few major organisations to enable create capability and employability by way of its immersive and vernacular content. Additionally, by way of a current partnership with the NSDC’s eskillindia.org portal—an on-line mastering hub with more than 800 courses in more than 20 sectors—21CC Education will be supplying its app-based content to enable bridge India’s talent deficit in the logistics and transport sector. “This new association with the NSDC, will help build a skilled talent pool in India, ensuring a robust workforce that has the opportunity to be gainfully employed and be contributively aligned with the nation’s growth agenda,” he adds.
21CC Education raised a seed fund round of € 1.1 million in March 2020 by way of a Dutch angel investor. The funds have been used to create out the tech platform, enhance the content library of 21CC Education and of course, to push into the marketplace. “As we ride on the increasing digital penetration to bring our skill empowerment drive to India’s hinterlands, our team is working extensively to build vernacular content and deepen our technology, while working to create an even stronger network,” says Tiwari. “We consistently upgrade and strengthen our platform through a data-backed and research-led feedback loop to ensure we stay ahead and impactful in our mission to revolutionise skilling in India and help provide a ready talent pool for the logistics and transportation sectors.”