IHCL will increase women's participation in the workforce to 25%

On Friday, Tata Group-backed Indian Hotels Company (IHCL)

informed that it plans to increase the participation of women in its workforce to 25 percent by the year 2025, and support women-led businesses and partners. Other than this the popular hospitality company that launched,

'She Remains the Taj',

a platform for women-centric initiatives for all stakeholders, including guests, employees, partners, and the community, is also considering providing skill training to around 25,000 women in the next five years.

IHCL's Managing Director and CEO Puneet Chhatwal

further announced that said IHCL has been advocating the cause of women and boosting their participation. Currently, Indian Hotels Company has about 2.8 lakh employees.

The MD and CEO of the company in his statement said, ''We have taken several initiatives internally, but also with organizations like CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) and we have done an agreement with them to skill people. So if I add all of those initiatives, with CII, our own internal what we've been doing in the past, it comes to one lakh people to be skilled over the next five years, of which again, 25,000 will be women.”