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Introduction to Larsen and Toubro

Larsen & Toubro Limited, or L&T, is an Indian multinational corporation headquartered in Chen-

nai, Tamil Nadu, India. L&T is India's largest engineering and construction company in India.

History: The company was founded in Mumbai in 1938 by two Danish engineers, Henning
Holck-Larsen (chemical engineer) and

Soren Kristian Toubro (civil engineer).

In 1944, ECC was incorporated by the
partners; the company at this time was
focused on construction projects. In

1976, Holck-Larsen was awarded the
Magsaysay Award for International Un-

derstanding in recognition of his contri-
bution to India's industrial development.

He retired as Chairman in 1978.Later Henning Holck Larsen died in 2003 at the Breach Candy
hospital, Mumbai after a prolonged illness.

Introduction to CSTI

India's largest engineering construction organization founded the Construction Skills Training In-
stitute (CSTI) way back in 1995 at Chennai, with a motive to regulate and promote Construction
Vocational Training in India in a professional manner. For more than a decade, CSTI has been

developing a trained workforce through structured training. In the shortest possible time, CSTI
branches have been established in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad,

and Cuttack.

Objectives of CSTI are:

To prepare the construction workforce to meet the imminent explosion in the demand for world
class construction in terms of the required level of quality of workmanship and productivity.

To classify training requirements and to set standards to monitor occupational levels of compe-
tency of the technicians to be deployed in construction.

To disseminate knowledge & appropriate skill practice through recognized systems of training,

testing and certification to validate levels of competency.

To facilitate training by setting up modular training schools with well-defined infrastructure and

curricula.

To serve the social cause of harnessing the raw power of multitude of Indian youth into trained
and focused construction workforce of world class standards.

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