Speaking after inaugurating various Skill Development courses and Atal Skill Development Center of Swarna Bharat Trust (SBT), Hyderabad chapter, along with Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, Rudy said, "Unfortunately, in Indian system education has a distinct bias against skills and all those who became important mostly were educated and everyone thought that education was more important and skills became secondary".
"This is for the first time that (with) Prime Minister's focus on providing job skills...There is a discussion now in the country that skilling is more important than education," Rudy said.
"...Engineering colleges are closing down because the children coming out of these colleges cannot be employed because they do not know about technical part (do not possess job skills) of it. The industry wants those with skills," Rudy added.
Education is important, he said adding but, 10-year or 12-year school education will not get one jobs.
"But, along with 10-year or 12-year school education (if one is imparted), 10 or 12 weeks training, no one can stop you from getting employment. This is the strength of skills and we are working towards this," the Minister said, underling the need for employability skill.
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Meanwhile, Venkaiah said the Centre is giving top
priority for skill development.
"Youth should not look for government jobs as it is difficult to provide jobs for everyone," he said and suggested that the youth should acquire various employment skills, and prefer self-employment.
"As there is dearth of skilled manpower in our country, the Swarna Bharat Trust is conducting training programmes (17 vocational programmes)," Venkaiah added.