CHENNAI: It was a different stroke by former Indian Cricket Captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth as he dabbled his expertise in entrepreneurship by providing value added soft skills to enhance the employability of youth. Partnering with the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Development Institute in the State, Srikkanth the ace cricketer opined that cricket being the most sought after game in the country, would in fact, become the medium to inculcate the skills.“Motivation will be the key behind this programme which will be offered initially to the Engineering College students and will be expanded to other streams of education as well,” Srikkanth noted.The site (www.careerstrokes.com) will have several preloaded modules crafted to chisel students in soft-skills as well as on the technical front, the national cricket selection committee chairman observed.Each module will also have an assessment benchmarked to the corresponding skills on successful completion of the module, he said.The programme can be a maximum of three months and can also be completed in a month too, he added.“The course, presently prepared in English, will be soon to become bilingual and especially Tanglish,” Srikkanth continued, “it would help the student comprehend much better and to learn English as well.”S Sivagnanam, Director, MSME Development Institute, said that they had ventured with Sun Online India Pvt. Ltd. “The training programme on the site (www.careerstrokes.com) uses cricket as an example to equip unemployed youth, aspiring entrepreneurs, and MSMEs, to improve the personality, leadership ability and building capacity for managing an enterprise. We have gone through the modules and the cricket-based learning approach design is unique, and captures all success points in a truly inspirational way,” he said. “It is time for us to equip the youth as there is a situation prevailing in the State where only 10 per cent of the Engineering graduates were employable according to the National Employability Survey 2011,” he noted.“We have targeted all the Engineering Colleges in the State and we would certainly get adequate feedback which will be used to set-right the gaps, if any in the modules. It would then be expanded not just across the State, but the entire country,” Sivagnanam said.
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