CM for imparting technological skills to unemployed youths

Aiming to impart technological skills to nearly one lakh unemployed youths in the state in phased manner, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the State Technical Education and Industrial Training department to engage world class agencies for the purpose.
Presiding over a high-level meeting here to finalise the modalities of the programme to provide skill training to the unemployed youth in the field of health-care, paramedics, driving and automotive, animal husbandry, allied farming and construction activity, Badal directed Secretary, Technical Education to engage the best skill training and placement agencies.
The agencies with proven track record should be roped in to enhance the capacity building of five upcoming Multi-Skill Development Centres (MSDCs), with intake capacity of 7500 trainees, he said.

The MSDCs would be set up at Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala, Amritsar and Hoshiarpur.
It would offer skill training courses in light engineering, hand tools, garment and fashion technology and welding and others in accordance with needs of local industry, an official release said here today.
Secretary, Technical Education, Rakesh Verma apprised the CM that contractors, selected after tender process, have already been alloted the construction work and the MSDCs would be become functional from April 2016.

The renowned skill development and placement agencies would be entrusted with the task for operational management, including execution of aptitude test, admission, training module and placement, he said.

Verma also informed CM that another MSDC, with an intake capacity of 1,500 would set up at Anandpur Sahib. Site has already been identified for the purpose.
It would be handed over to the Technical Education department in due course of time, he added.
Besides these, three skill development centres to impart training in health-care and paramedics were being established in the government medical colleges of Patiala, Amritsar and Faridkot with total intake capacity of 2,250 trainees.
Likewise, 5,600 trainees would be provided training in the upcoming construction and building skill development centres at Mohali, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar.
Apart from this, nearly 4,200 youths would be given training in driving and automotive skills at the new centres being set up at Malerkotla and Kapurthala.