Senior Congress leader and Dhuri MlA Arvind Khanna on Sunday extended support to the agitating students of the industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the State.
“Demands of the students are genuine and the Government does not require too much efforts to fulfil them,” he said. Khanna said: “All the demands, including payment of scholarship, adequate teaching staff and better drinking water and toilet facilities, are genuine as these facilities are basic requirements of any institution of learning.” He said that it was surprising that students had to resort to an agitation for these basic facilities.
Congress leader said: “There is an urgent need to modernise the ITIs across the state so that they can impart the training according to modern-day needs. The idea and purpose behind setting up these institutes is to make youth competent for jobs and, at the same time, provide trained manpower to the industry.”
“It is unfortunate that students of these institutions had to resort to an agitation to get the facilities things they should have been provided in a routine manner,” he said.