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Tribune News Service
Shimla, July 16
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur yesterday said that the government was making earnest efforts to enhance the skills of the youth of the state so that they could get more gainful employment and self-employment opportunities in various sectors. He presided over a programme organised by the HP Skill Development Corporation (HSDC) on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day here.
Thakur said that the government was committed to provide all possible assistance to the youth for their skill upgrade so that they could earn their livelihood in a better way. “The government has awarded contracts of Rs 545 crore under the Himachal Pradesh Skill Development Project while Asian Development Bank (ADB) has granted Rs 195 crore,” he added. Besides, a Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality and IT sectors was being established at Waknaghat in Solan district with the help of the ADB.
Thakur said that the HSDC had signed MoUs with government institutions and universities to provide training to about 16,000 youth in various fields such as artificial intelligence, web designing, machine learning. Besides, short-term up-skilling and multi-skilling training had been started through government industrial training institutes (IITs), he added.
The Chief Minister said that the HSDC had started the Navdharana programme for differently-abled persons to provide skill training to 300 candidates in the field of retail, tourism and hospitality. He added that the third phase of the programme was in progress and more than 16,200 youth had enrolled for it. In the third phase, more than 1,600 candidates had been trained, he added.
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