Chidambaram's dig at govt on skill development scheme launch

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jul 14 2015 | 10:07 PM IST
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram today took a jibe at the launching of the Skill Development Programme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow saying it will be an "Achhe Din" for the NDA government.
"National Skill Development Mission will be relaunched, I repeat, relaunched by the PM tomorrow under a new name. It will be Achhe Din for the NDA. Should we applaud?" he tweeted.
Modi is set to launch tomorrow the Skill India mission on World Youth Skills Day that aims to converge and monitor skill development schemes across the country as well as provide subsidised loans to students for vocational training.
"The mission was originally launched in August 2010. Its flagship scheme 'STAR' was launched in August 2013. The first certificates were distributed to the trained youth on 5 February 2014.
"National Skill Development Corporation has enrolled 160 training partners & 1722 trainers. 35 lakh persons have already been trained," Chidambaram said in another tweet.
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First Published: Jul 14 2015 | 10:07 PM IST

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