Nearly 6,700 students of 9th and 10th standard in selected 121 schools of the State are availing new professional education under an important initiative of providing skill education in high schools.
Skilled trainers are training these students in subjects such as IT, retail business, automobile, health checkup, and agro-based business, officials stated.
As per the directives of Chief Minister Raman Singh, State Secondary Education Mission under School Education Department has been implementing this system in high schools.
School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap is regularly monitoring the progress to ensure systematic implementation of the system.
According to the information received from Managing Director of State Secondary Education Mission Mohammad Kesar Abdul Haq, 25 higher secondary schools in eight districts of state were selected in the academic session 2014-15.
In each of these schools, 50 students of 9th and 10th standard are being provided facility to avail training in two trades. In this way, students of all 25 high schools are learning about information technology, students of nine high schools are getting trained in retail business, and those of 16 high schools are availing training in automobile trade.
Keeping in view the success of the scheme, 96 more high schools have been included under the scheme in academic session 2015-16, where students are being provided training in information technology, health-check-up and agro-based business.
A total of 50 students from each of the selected high schools are being provided with the facility to avail skill development training.
In this way total 6050 students are getting trained in various trades. This year 650 students of 10th standard from selected 25 schools will appear for exams of professional trades, for which they had opted in place of Sanskrit subject.