A BMW India’s ‘Skill Next’ programme, aimed at imparting hands-on expertise and practical training to automobile engineering students across the country was launched by cricketing legend ‘Sachin Tendulkar’.
Tendulkar, who is the brand ambassador of the German luxury car manufacturer, launched the programme by assembling an engine and a transmission unit along with the Anna University’s College of Engineering students here at the main assembly line of the company’s factory at Mahindra World City near here.
Under the initiative, the luxury car manufacturer would provide 365 BMW engines and transmissions to various engineering and technical institutes across the country ‘free of cost’. The company officials said 365 engines and transmission units would be provided for learning purposes to the educational institutions at ‘no cost.’