Western Zone Competition held at Ajmera Realty's Bhakti Park Site, Wadala, Mumbai, Maharashtra.

On 27th June 2016, MCHI - CREDAI flagged - off the regional competitions for the event India Skills 2016. The winners of this competition will represent India at the World Skill Competition 2017 in Dubai. Regional Competitions for India Skills 2016 were presided over by Mr. Nainesh Shah, Secretary - MCHI CREDAI, Mr. Percy Chowdhry, Director - RAGC, Mr. J. P. Shroff, Convenor - Skilling, CREDAI National, Rajni Ajmera, Chairman - Advisory Council, CREDAI National and Mr. Kavi Luthra, Executive Director - RAGC graced the occasion as the Guests of Honour. The competition was conducted by CREDAI's Associate Partners, Kushal and Rustomjee Academy for Global Careers (RAGC). Mr. J.P. Shroff, Mr. Kavish Thakwani from Kushal and Gladwyn Victor from RAGC were the Jury members for this prestigious competition.

Winners of the bricklaying competition were Kamlesh Chauhan, Taukir Ansari, Rani Naik & Nagma Shaikh. Winners of Wall & Floor Tiling were Sabavath Kumar, Mohammad Arman, Balvir Singh, Shailendra Chavan & Rathalanath Kumar for the Western zone. The winners were awarded with a certificate of recognition and a monetary reward worth Rs. 2000 each. The regional competitions are being held across the 4 zones, now with the Western round completed as well, only 2 more regional rounds are left. The winners from each zone will climb up to compete within the tournament at the National level, to be held in Kushal, Pune, scheduled on 3rd and 4th of July. 2 workers from each skill set (i.e. 8 workers in all) will be nominated to the India Skill Competition to be held in Kanpur on 15th of July in the presence of the Hon'ble Prime Minster of India, Shri Narendra Modi. The winners of the India Skills event will then be trained by CREDAI at Kushal for the World Skills Competition to be held in Abu Dhabi in 2017and will be awarded Rs 1 Lakh each as prize money.

Mr. Rajnikant S. Ajmera, Chairman, Advisory Council - CREDAI and Chairman & Managing Director - Ajmera Realty said. "We credit the quality of infrastructure across all Ajmera Realty projects to the hard work of young and talented workforce that CREDAI has been actively involved in training. To be able to support CREDAI in this initiative and to be associated with the event is matter of great pride for us. We at Ajmera are fully committed to CREDAI's and NSDC's mission of making India the Skills Capital of the world. Such competitions provide an unmatched avenue for these workers and give them the right platform to showcase their skills on an international scale."

CREDAI entered in the world of skilling with its flagship program "Kushal" in 2011. Since, then CREDAI has been focussing a lot on skill training of construction workers. Taking cognizance of CREDAI's commitment towards skilling of construction workers PNB Housing Finance Limited (PNBHFL) associated with it for up scaling the construction workers under its CSR initiative. With the support and trust of PNBHFL, CREDAI is expanding skill training of construction workers across India. So far CREDAI has trained more than 27,000 construction workers with in a period of 5 years.