Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday underscores the need of skill education for development of the country. At the same time, Badal impressed upon imparting result-oriented skill education to the youth and making them self-reliant by providing them opportunities of gainful employment.
Badal, addressing the gathering during the fourth convocation of lovely Professional University (lPU), exhorted the youth to work whole heartedly for achieving the Premi Minister Narendra Modi’s target of making India a leading country in the world.
lauding Modi for making all out efforts to bring India in the forefront, Badal said that the country was fortunate to have a visionary and dynamic Prime Minister like him who has envisioned to make India as “number one” in every field.
However, he said that Modi’s dream could only be fulfilled with the active support and cooperation of the public especially the youth. “All us have to jointly make efforts for fulfilling the dream of Prime Minster by further putting the country on high growth trajectory,” added Badal.
“Today’s era is of science and technology. The need of the day is to impart result-oriented skill education to the youth. It is all the more important to make youth self-reliant by providing them opportunities of gainful employment,” said Badal.
He said that the State Government has planned to open a number of skill centers in the state that would impart world-class skill training to the youth in various sectors so as to enable them to earn their livelihood besides producing a pool of skilled manpower so as to cope up with the need of industry of the State.
The Chief Minister said that these centres, to be established under the Punjab State Skill Development Mission, would act as a game changer by changing the fortunes of the youth of the State.
Badal said that he had series of parleys with the industrialists of the State to set up integrated skill training centers that could provide specialised skill training to the youth. “It is the high time to infuse the scientific temper amongst our youth to make Punjab a frontrunner State” he added.
listing the state government’s achievements in the field of education, Badal said that our efforts had fructified as the State has got premier institutes like IIM, IIT, IIIT, Indian School of Business and others which would give major fillip to the education in the State.
“Ever since assuming power, the State Government has set up 12 new universities and 19 Degree Colleges in the State. To boost technical education in Malwa hinterland of the state, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Technical University Bathinda is being set up by the State Government,” he said.