A target of imparting self-employment training to 6 to 10 lakh youths and increasing polytechnics’ enrolment capacity up to 30,000 has been included in action plan of the Higher Education & Skill Development Department. At present, polytechnic colleges’ enrolment capacity is 16,500.
During the next 100 days, the scheme for setting up skill development centres in 70 unserviced development blocks with private investment and 50 centres with State’s resources will be given final shape. High tech ITIs will be established. Two state-of-the art training centres — with 10,000 admission capacity each — will be established with international partnership. A plan has also been chalked out for setting up 10 centres of excellence with cooperation of leading industrial houses and multi-lateral agencies.
District headquarter-based ITIs will be developed at hubs. Institute for Training will be opened in Bhopal from July 2014.An external placement agency will be engaged for better placement of ITI-passouts. An action plan will be chalked out to start new courses in polytechnic colleges and start minimum five courses in every polytechnic.
For enhancing quality of technical education, two QIP centre courses of PhD will be get accredited with NBA and lectures of noted subject-experts will be arranged. An action plan will be chalked out for qualitative improvement in teaching structure of State’s engineering and polytechnic colleges under National Higher Education Campaign. Wi-fi facility will be provided and experts’ lectures through e-vani will be delivered in technical colleges. E-libraries will also be set up in colleges.