Higher Education, Technical Education and Manpower Planning Minister, Prem Prakash Pandey has directed officials to constitute five-member committees at division level to monitor the progress of skill development programmes and courses.
The target for the year 2014-15 is to train as many as 1.20 lakh youths should be complete in the given time frame, he said.
Pandey, while reviewing the departmental activities in a meeting with the officers of Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Authority (CSSDA) at the Mantralaya inquired about the action taken besides future plans.
He sought information about the status of trainers and organisations providing training and year-wise details of training provided by them. Pandey said that the division-level committee should have two members from Non Government Organisations contributing in this field.
He said that the officials should regularly monitor the quality of these training programmes. They should also monitor the efficiency and quality of trainers so that the number of employment oriented programmes could be increased.
Pandey instructed the officers to set targets for each district and division and they should ensure that the targets are achieved in the stipulated time-frame. He said that district level ‘Career Madhai’ should be organised at each development block as per the instructions of Chief Minister Raman Singh and large-scale publicity of such programmes should be done. Secretary (Technical Education) Amit Agrawal, CEO of CSSDA, Ashok Kumar Dubey, Assistant Director Atul Kamle and Sunil Yadav were present in the meeting.