MMDA employees to get free training from TESDA

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on to render free livelihood training and skills upgrading for the traffic agency's employees.

The agreement gives opportunities for the MMDA's traffic enforcers and their families to have alternatives means of income, GMA News' Steve Dailisan reported on "Balitanghali" on Monday.

TESDA signs MOA with @MMDA for skills upgrading & livelihood training of MMDA employees and families. pic.twitter.com/vYfVSWlrb7

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MMDA chairman Tim Orbos said traffic enforcers are often concerned about their incomes, which they said are inadequate to attend to their family's needs. He said this prompts some of them to resort to corruption or other illegal means such as extortion.

Orbos was joined by TESDA director general Guiling Mamodiong in the MOA signing which was held at the MMDA Metrobase.

Under the agreement, TESDA will train MMDA employees on housekeeping, food and beverage services, massage, welding, and automotive servicing in a training room allotted by the MMDA in its office in Makati City.

MMDA employees are only required to be physically fit for them to be qualified in the training.

Almost 5,000 employees and their families can benefit from the TESDA partnership, the report said.

An initial batch of 25 employees from the MMDA's Gwapotel will undergo the training, wherein a certificate of training completion will be given to those who will successfully finish the program.

The wives of the said MMDA employees will follow the training where new jobs will await them upon completion, the report added.

Mamodiong said TESDA aims to bring its programs closer to all government agencies as part of the anti-corruption drive of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Mamodiong said the agency is also eyeing to train the wives of inmates. —Joseph Tristan Roxas/KBK, GMA News