Punjab Government has started four new Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) — at Maloud in Ludhiana, Adampur in Jalandhar, Singhpura in Ropar, and Manakpur Sharif in SAS Nagar (Mohali) — where the admissions have started from the current academic session.
“Another institution — Sri Guru Gobind Singh Skill University — is also coming up at Sri Chamkaur Sahib,” said the state Technical Education and Industrial Training and Employment Generation Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on the occasion of handing over appointment letters to the 52 newly recruited clerks on regular basis.
He said that the Punjab Government is making special efforts in the technical education and skill development sector in order to provide jobs as well as self employment avenues to the state’s youth.
Exhorting the newly-recruited clerks to discharge their duties with dedication, Channi said that Rs 100 crore are being spent on the modernization of technical education infrastructure by the Punjab Government.
“A letter has been sent to the Subordinate Services Selection Board to make recruitments to the posts of 89 clerks, 2 steno typists and 3 drivers in the Technical Education Department...Thapar University, Patiala, is initiating the process to recruit 423 craft inspectors, nine senior assistants, 24 hostel superintendents, 17 storekeepers and one librarian in the Technical Education Department,” he said.