Daimler India Commercial Vehicles launches New BharatBenz Regional Training Center in Cuttack, Odisha

Chennai: Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG (“Daimler Truck”) today launched a new BharatBenz Regional Training Center (RTC) in Cuttack, Odisha. The new RTC, a partnership between BharatBenz, Directorate of Technical Education and Training (DTET) and PPS Motors Pvt. Ltd., is situated in the premises of ITI, Cuttack and will be conducting technical training programs for the students of ITI, Cuttack as well as BharatBenz dealer sales and service technical staff in the Eastern region.

Government of Odisha dignitaries, Pritiranjan Gharai, Minister; Skill Development & Technical Education, Subroto Bagchi, Chairman, Odisha Skill Development Authority, Hemant Sharma Principal Secretary, Skill development and Department of Technical Education, Reghu. G, IAS - Director, Technical Education and Training were present at the launch. 

BharatBenz is setting up Regional Training Centers all over India to reskill and upskill its technical personnel. The RTC at ITI, Cuttack is the second, while the first one was set up in Chennai four years back. BharatBenz will be opening two more RTCs – one each in the North and the West with an objective to train maximum personnel on an annual basis. 

Rajaram Krishnamurthy, Vice President BharatBenz Marketing & Sales and Customer Service said, “The launch of BharatBenz Regional Training Center in Cuttack is a part of BharatBenz Academy’s bigger plan to have one Regional Training Center each in North, South, East and West of India to train, reskill and upskill students, our drivers and personnel in sales and after-sales service. Two more Regional Training Centers for North and West are in the pipeline and will be operational by December 2022.

With BharatBenz Academy being operational for last 4 years, we have trained about 28,000 technicians so far, in our Chennai RTC. With the new Regional Training Center in Cuttack, we will be training over 800 technicians and train over 2000 technicians within a year, only in the East zone. Our aim is to train at least 10,000 technicians every year across our Regional Training Centers.”