HPKVN to sign skill development pact with industrial bodies

Himachal Pradesh Kaushal Vikas Nigam (HPKVN) will sign a pact with 17 industrial organisations on Monday for improving the skills of the workers and enhance their employability.
The agreement will be signed here on February 8, in the presence of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, HPKVN Managing Director Rajesh Sharma said today.
Under the pact, the organisations would prepare training modules, keeping in view the needs of the industry, emerging trends in various employment sectors and impart it to workers, he added.
HPKVN has already started collaborating with different central ministries, appropriate organisations, designated skill development missions in other states, sectorskill councils to establish appropriate national/international linkages to optimise resources for rapid and sustainedskill development of the youth in the state, Sharma said.

The Nigam will chalk out a roadmap for skill development, training and employment for students, school dropouts, unskilled workers, unemployed youth, informal sector, differently-abled women and disadvantaged and marginalised groups, he added.