The State Government and NTPC ltd will open a women’s polytechnic in the Joshimath area this year.
The NTPC (Hydro) executive director Virendra Kumar Gupta and Uttarakhand Government Technical Education director Shailesh Bagauli recently signed an MoU for establishing a women’s polytechnic. The NTPC ltd will provide a sum of Rs 14.72 crore for the establishment of this women’s polytechnic. According to sources, it has been decided that the Government of Uttarakhand will facilitate the provision of land and construction of this polytechnic.
The NTPC ltd Tapovan Vishnugad and lata Tapovan projects general manager Tribhuwan Nath Srivastav said that the construction of the women’s polytechnic in the Joshimath area will enable female students of Chamoli district and neighbouring areas to undergo vocational education which will help improve their prospects of securing jobs.
This in turn will benefit the locals by contributing to development at the local level, he further said.