J'khand Govt to impart skill trng to 20l youth in nxt 5 yrs

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said the state will impart skill training to at least 20 lakh youth in the next five years and efforts are on to set up 500 skill training centres to achieve the target.
The centres would train students and the unemployed among others and priority would be given to Schedule Tribe and Schedule Caste youth, an official release said quoting Das at a meeting here.
Stating that skill training was a top priority of the state government, Das said training would also be connected with high schools, specially to train students of class IX and above to help them select their career.

He said skill training was an important scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and self-employment could come through skill development.
The Jharkhand Skill Training Mission Society, which is now under the Labour Department, would be shifted to Higher Education and Science and Technology department for better coordination in education, the release said.
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In a related development, the state government today
decided to set up Multi Skill Development Centres at Majuli, Dibrugrah, Nalbari, Silchar, Biswanath, Diphu, Dhubri, Nagaon and Kokrajhar.
A decision in this effect was reached at the first Governing Council meeting of Assam Skill Development Mission.
Employment Generation Mission would also be integrated with Assam Skill Development Mission (ASDM) developing skills in 1.5 lakh youths in vocations like hospitality, tourism, horticulture and floriculture, electronic and construction in the financial year 2017-18, an official release said.

For this, ASDM has signed an MoU with Institute of Technical Education, Singapore, to set up an institute in Assam, and has proposed to enter into MoUs with Skill Development Schools of South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
ASDM has also proposed to build a Skill City with different categories of Skill Development Schools, besides opening a Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Bikas Kendra in all the districts to create employment avenues, the release said.
The chief minister, chairing the Governing Council meeting, also asked the ASDM to prepare the youths for expanding their employability outside the State as well as country.