April 2022, Gujarat: Ahuja Residences and its sub-brand Yuhi Hospitality Services have joined hands with the Tourism & Hospitality Skill Council (THSC) to support the ‘Skill India’ development initiative. The certification of the first batch of its upskilling program was held on Thursday, April 14th, 2022, in Daslana, Ahmedabad. Ahuja Residences and Yuhi Hospitality Services signed an MoU with THSC to recruit and upskill 50+ underprivileged people from the country’s Northeast and train them at different Ahuja Residences and Yuhi Hospitality properties in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Pune, and Gurugram. Among the skillsets, the program is focusing on are front office, food & beverage (service), and housekeeping.

The training program has been established with an eye on specific job roles, better alignment to company culture, and, more importantly, an outcome-based training model. The candidates have been hired as apprentices from day one under the National Apprentice Promotion Scheme (NAPS), and are given a healthy stipend along with other facilities, including uniform, meals, accommodation and medical services, etc.

The program will benefit people from underprivileged backgrounds and offer them a chance to build toward a better future. It will enable them to advance their skills and provide them employment, while also making it easier for them to land jobs in the future and open doors to further opportunities.

Jaideep Ahuja, MD, and CEO of Ahuja Residences said, “In the changing times and with the bouncing back of the hospitality industry, there is a pressing need for skilled and qualified young labour which is difficult to procure by conventional market practices. To fill this vacuum, THSC together with NAPS has created a potential and viable solution, which will help in the quick revival of the hospitality industry.”

About Ahuja Residences

Providing hospitable accommodation solutions for 40 years, Ahuja Residences has served over half a million customers and aspires to be India’s leading provider of extended-stay and budget accommodations. Offering innovative, reliable, cost-effective and customised services to corporate and individual customers, Ahuja Residences aims to be the brand of choice for the value-conscious traveller.  The brand is one of India's leading providers of quality boutique hotels, corporate housing and serviced apartments in Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Pune, Rohtak, Ahmedabad and Sricity (Andhra Pradesh) . One of India's premier signatures in the sphere of hospitality and related services, Ahuja Residences offers over 300 properties across the country, with more than 1,000 fine suites and rooms dotting the tourist’s and corporate traveller’s map. Over the years, Ahuja Residences hotels have been consistently rated among the top performers in their category by TripAdvisor and MakeMyTrip.

The brand has service apartments in some of the finest neighbourhoods in South Delhi, like Vasant Vihar, Anand Niketan, Golf Links, Defence Colony, etc. and also in Sector-44 at Noida and at the condominium complexes in Gurugram such as Park Place, The Crest, Belaire and others. Ahuja Residences boutique hotels are located in the most exclusive neighborhoods of Golf Links and Sunder Nagar in New Delhi and DLF City Phase-1 and 2 in Gurugram. AR Suites, the company’s suite-only brand, operates properties in Kalyani Nagar in Pune, and Noida. It recently launched a 97-room property in Pune called AR Suites Jewels Royale and 58 rooms property in Gurugram, Air-Conscious living by Ahuja Residences.

In addition to providing Serviced Apartments to Expats, especially Japanese Clients, Ahuja’s subsidiary company, Yuhi Hospitality Services, provide short term accommodations through its boutique Japanese hotels across the country and operates facilities in Gurugram, Rohtak, Hoshiarpur, Sricity (an SEZ) in Andhra Pradesh and have recently started its operations at Daslana, near Ahmedabad in Gujarat.