PanIIT Alumni Reach for India Foundation (PARFI), announced the launch of Kalyan Gurukul, a multi-trade skill development centre, in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand to facilitate skilling and increase opportunities for employment for the economically backward youth.
This new skill training centre is part of PARFI’s ongoing initiative to skill youth in Jharkhand and make them industry ready, thus creating employment.
The gurukul will be run by PReJHA Foundation a joint initiative by Department of Welfare, Government of Jharkhand and PanIIT Alumni Reach for India Foundation (PARFI) which has been setup with an objective to enable skill development and entrepreneurship to under privileged sections and will aim to set up one gurukul in each district of Jharkhand as its initial mandate. PReJHA is a non-profit joint enterprise to implement and scale sustainable welfare initiatives.
This initiative replicates the gurukul model of learning for skill development across all the districts of the State and thus provide a network of sub-ITI institutions accessible to schools drop-outs, underprivileged and those who are from the lower strata of the socio economic background.
Inaugurating the centre Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation said: “It’s important to provide the youth with the requisite skills that will make them employable. This new gurukul in Hazaribagh will help create skilled manpower and ensure sustainable employment, thus improving the socio economic status of our people.”
Students enrolled into the gurukul have to pay a basic fee which is provided through a loan financing scheme with NABARD and its subsidiaries. Repayment of loan starts only after the student gets a job placement, and is repaid through monthly installments.
The gurukul has the infrastructure for skill enhancement of 300 youngsters and starting with first batch of 54 students. The students are mostly from underprivileged background who have had to drop out of school or have completed matriculation.
The students will get skill in new trades like plumbing and electrical mechanics and after completion of training they will get opportunities for job placements in Middle Eastern Countries (Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) and in alumni partner companies. The duration of training is three months.
The gurukul is present in Jharkhand across various locations like Gumla, Jamshedpur, Bundu, East and West Singhbum, Simdega, Koderma, Saraikela, Dumka, and Palamu, successfully training over 8,000 youth and getting them placed in various industries.