Madhya Pradesh State Skill Development Mission organised a State level workshop to bring on board industry partners from Construction, Apparel, IT/ITeS, Retail and Electronics sectors. The mission aims to explore various avenues through which the department can collaborate with the industries to help enhance and promote skill development in the State.

 The event commenced with a welcome address by Sanjeev Singh, Director–Directorate of Skill Development and CEO, MPSSDM, who shared with the participants the State’s vision to train 7.5 lakh youth during the year 2017-18.

He also shared that the State would soon launch two State funded schemes - Mukhya Mantri Kaushal Samvardhan Yojana and Kaushalya to offer short term skilling courses for the youth. The gathering was also addressed by CEO’s of Construction, Apparel, IT/ITeS, Retail and Electronics Sector Skill Councils, who highlighted the employment trends in their respective areas.

As many as 42 MoU’s were signed with Industry Partners. This included MoUs with Industry majors such as Samsung India Electronics Pvt. ltd, l&T Group, Radisson Hotel Indore, Scientech Pvt ltd, Path India ltd, Pratibha Syntex Pvt ltd, Century Yarn Pvt ltd, Maral Overseas ltd, SureVin BPO etc.

The MoUs will give an opportunity to ITI students to get trained on State of the Art technologies by the Industry Partners. A special MoU was signed withthe noted hair stylist Jawed Habib for content development and training of students in ITIs Indore and Bhopal. Renowned guests at the event were extremely appreciative of the State’s Flexi MoU Policy.

 Known hair stylist Jawed Habib said, “MP government’s initiative in skill development through their Flexi MoU Policy will help students to get the right skill set and also increase employment opportunities for them, as hairstyling is one area which is growing rapidly and there will be no lack of opportunities in the coming years.”