[Music] well we are inside Jama school of aviation this is a facility in Hyderabad well it's one of its kinds school situated in India and in particular in Hyderabad well when we talk about Aviation sector Perhaps it is one of the most lucrative when it comes to people's choice in professions and in fact why we are coming to you from this very facility we have a very unique reason for that well this facility provides certain uh types of courses and qualifications which actually gives you a Gateway uh to the Mr uh to the mro mro means maintenance repair and overhaul in fact this is uh perhaps one of the first institutes to actually offer an integrated course where a person can actually learn what this type of engineering is and also uh get a sense of the on ground or the on job training U atmosphere and you get all of it here at this very Institute um I have me joining uh with me is Mr Ashok gopinath so thank you so much for speaking to CNN news8 s first of all there are a lot of Aviation School uh in India we have a lot of schools here in India and abroad why is this one different okay good question uh this school has been set up as a global standard completely different there are many schools in India as you rightly said one of the unique feature of the school is the school is owned by an gmr aerot Technic mro we are international mro we have this m with us so we need resources Manpower skilled man available required for us so as part of thater scheme we had set up the school and we have set it up to a global standard so we are roped in Aus as our technical partner and they are and and and because of the technical partnership withus we are able to offer a course content course syllabus which is propriatary to Abus you know in in terms of that so that's the global standard that we are trying to reach and then we have a a comprehensive program we are offering because we also have mro we have a global content and then we are having a so idea was to provide a 2 year academic session in the school then 2-year uh session in the mro and then we follow it with the type course so that the the students who are enrolling here have an opportunity to R come out in from in one stop right from the beginning uh starting of the course by till end they have they industry ready with a license in their hand to work as a professionally qualified aircraft maintenance engineer ready to be ready to be employed so that kind of an opportunity is something completely different I don't don't think anybody else in this in this area is offering that so that's the one key unique another differentiator of the school plus we have because we have M with us we already have an existing partnership or a discussion uh or or an engagement with many oems aircraft oems component oems plus large operators in this in India and abroad so we are able to um offer those kind of our partners in the business and skilled Manpower ready so that is another opportunity for the school students who are graduating out of the school will have not only an opportunity in India uh to be employed by Airlines and and other mros but they have a global market available in the form of the International Airlines and other mos in located in this region have a have a ready resource available to them to engage with so that is another big Advantage for students graduating out of the school okay so U let's talk about the facility we are in this particular part we just showed to our viewers and now we are entering this very area sir uh it is important like you mentioned this is something where hands-on experience is very important for an engineer to get into the real world situations if there is a fault if there's something like that so why this facility in particular serve the industry better because it's a fast moving industry and in fact there is a lot of demand for these sorts of Engineers and right now we understand over 50% of these engineering needs have are being catered from outside India so how it's going to be a boost for the job market markets here in India so with the growth in aviation which has been forecasted India is growing at the rate of 20% perom in the aviation sector to support that kind of a growth the m has to segment has to grow when the M segment has to grow one of the constituent of M to grow is actually the resources the human resources and the skilled Manpower that should be available Manpower is available but they are not ready they not fully skilled to be deployed in expanding mro or the aviation sector so today we have modern aircraft with modern technology so that is one of the reason why how we are seeing we are bringing the brought in a international Global school with the latest gadgets latest training AIDS and training equipments so what you see here in this Workshop is basically the aircraft system trainers of various aircraft systems like a typically of a let's say 320 or a 37 hydraulic system Landing GE system anti pneumatic system autopilot system and so like that where are various systems are there this provides the students an an an enhanced learning experience they can physically study do lot of fault isolation simulate faults and architecture of the system can be studied in an open environment which they un they may not go and get readily opportunity to be in in their live environment so they become actually fully ready more confident have a better experience and knowledge based by the time they graduate at the school so this this that is how the school has invested in this model teaching uh tooling where we call it a system trainers which are exactly and what they see here in the system trainers in the form of system trainers in the display is what they going to see in the cockpit of an aircraft or a typical A320 aircraft what they see in the display in the cockpit the switches the operating mechanism the methodology is what they see they will see they will be more confident so here we are giving them a methodical way of how to do how to go about doing your work in the actual environment and by that way the student students are more confident they more knowledgeable they more become competent and have a competency rating of an international skilled Workforce okay sir now let's talk about the course itself you explained the integrities of the course what all you'll be offering so from when we are expecting you to uh start this way course so the school is designed to uh to uh to have an intake of approximately 175 students per anom in the first phase of the the school life uh which and the first batch we are inducting uh starting the first class because the admission process is on students are already enrolled and the first class will start on 15th June sorry 15th July is the first class classing and the second batch will start on one month later so that is how the thing and when this is in the first phase we'll have 175 students once we have the the second phase which is additional classrooms ready in in a years time then we will the school will have a capacity to take 350 students per anom okay uh sir let's also I just want to uh talk on one very Factor uh because the government's idea is also atbar bhat and skill India is this course designed to actually also looking at all those things which have been actually put across by the government so to uh yes you right actually and from the from the group gmr group perspective we are looking at Aviation as a platform that is how we are evolving as a group we have airport we have mro now we have the school and the school skill development and we are and also there is the the the group is as as a Aviation platform we are evolving into other ecosystem like how what you see in Delhi AOC City like that Hyderabad Aeros city is evolving so as far as skill development and training and developing Human Resources concerned in the field of aircraft maintenance this is an example of how what we have invested in and this is in line with the government of India's objective of atbar where today the most maximum work of the mro segment is getting outside the country but once as we grow those those we are expecting to get those mro work done in the country for which we need a skilled Manpower so we the school will addresses that gap of making available the skilled and knowledgeable ready to you ready to be deployed industry ready uh students and and Manpower uh it will meet that recent so largely it will meet the government of India objective and our objective of being atbar in this field of Aviation and ecosystem so one very thing is to keep the talent inside the country this is perhaps one of those challenges where every company be Aviation or any other any other industry faces so if you are um making if you're reading a talent for this sort of an industry how important is it for them to work uh within the country because what happens is right now like we spoke about how uh maximum of this job is done by uh abroad and not in India so how important is it to actually keep the talent um inside the country so yes in in fact this answers that point actually having an International School of global standard with using the global technology I mean the the current latest digital technology and the teaching methodology so this school answers that point of developing an international skilled man Workforce Indian Workforce to the international standard so we will be based on that the students who are coming out will be ready to be deployed in the industry and did it to be also uh to be deployed in international market also because the school offer was uh training in two streams of approval dgc India training under 147 training system plus iasa European Standard of training system so depending on what the choice student wants they can opt for the particular P particular approval category so when you are in yasa being a global standard the the students who coming out of the yasa stream from the school are readily Deployable in the in the international market also and in that way we are actually um also taking taking care of our attrition in the system is also addressed because we are creating ready uh stream of qualified people always ready to be used in our mro we will also be absorbing them some of them and they are ready to be absorbed in the in the domestic as well as International Market okay sir right now like you mentioned the capacity is around 175 and eventually it will also increase further so the question is uh one very important thing in this in this industry right now the aviation industry a lot of people are actually a lot of youngsters are actually tilted towards going into uh being a pilot or a commercial pilot but engineering and that to particularly aircraft maintenance engineering is something which is not quite out there for the people for the students to understand any message to the students or the budding uh Engineers who actually really want to get into this sort of an industry so I will say this is actually an industry to be watched for because we are growing at a rapid rate and being to be become the third biggest aviation industry in the world and today many of our students actually go abroad to get this kind of a qualitative training and and we today this school provides them a solution to do the same level of training and obtain the same certificate from yasa in India in Hyderabad so that is something a good alternative for students who are struggling to go out pay enormous amount of money and we provide them at a very very cost effective one thir less than one/ third the price watch otherwise the student would have gone abroad and studied so in that way we meet the requirement of developing the skilled Manpower within the country and also be self-sufficient in developing our own students plus cater for international students also this cats this facility cats for in the first phase we are doing basic training here then we will be doing type courses we'll be getting accreditation from the aircraft Manu airframe manufacturers big manufacturers to be their designated Training Center offer training uh training in type courses also on the specific ific aircraft plus we'll be doing industry courses like certificate and ancillary training and plus also offering degree accredition also so this will be an end to endend solution giving them the students and good suitable International alternative to be studying in India and be part of the growth story thank you so much sir for speaking to CNN news8 as I mentioned this is that one of its kinds school which offers those degrees and those courses actually which are perhaps most needed in the aviation industry right now the kind of growth the aviation sector is looking at we have a lot of job opportunities in in this way sector and also it is very important to actually get those jobs to the people within the country because the government also continuously laments on only one fact that we have to make India atbar plus also the workforce needs to be skilled to actually undertake all the needed Works which this industry requires