To bring about awareness among youths towards skill training and to inspire them for skill training, the “Rozgar ki Padhai-Chalen ITI” campaign has been launched on Thursday in the entire State. This campaign will be organised in four phases this year and will continue every year. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accompanied by Union Minister of State for Skill Development Rajiv Pratap Rudy launched the campaign at Model Industrial Training Institute situated in Govindpura. The live telecast of the inaugural function was displayed in all districts.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that the population of Madhya Pradesh will be made skilful to further strengthen the state. He said that there is need for skilful human resources in every field. India has always been a knowledge and skill-based country. He said that this is a mission to change Madhya Pradesh by building skill-based manpower. The infrastructure of Industrial Training Institutes has been strengthened. New trades have begun and all departments have been linked to skill development. Today there are 2 lakh seats available in ITI which would be increased as and when need arises in future. He said that instructions have been given to privately-run ITIs that they should improve quality of education and training.
Discussing the Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swarozgar Yojana and Mukhya Mantri Yuva Udyami Yojana, Chouhan said that in these schemes, ITI trained youths would be given priority. He said that eighth class students who are ITI pass will be given recognition of being qualified for Class 10th and Class 10th pass students will be given recognition as qualified for Class 12th. Women would be imparted ITI training for skill development to empower them financially.
Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Pratap Rudy said that the concept of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Skilled India is being implemented in Madhya Pradesh in full capacity and with dexterity. He said that India has always been a skill based country. Skillful people are the ones who make life easier and simpler. India needs skill equipped manpower. No attention has been paid in this direction for the last six decades.
The Prime Minister has provided an honourable status to skill and labour sector by making separate ministries. He said that skill development should go along with education. He said that Madhya Pradesh is the first to begin work in the direction
of skill development and it has gone a long way ahead in this direction.
He said that by creating a separate ministry for this in Madhya Pradesh, a model has been presented in the entire country. He informed that retired skill equipped army jawans would also be included in the work of imparting training after an agreement with the Indian Army. He said that creating a skill equipped country is possible only with the support of the states.
State’s Minister of State for Technical Education Deepak Joshi said that Prime Minister’s Skill India Mission and Make in India are being given actual shape in Madhya Pradesh.
Discussing the Mukhya Mantri Kaushal Samvardhan Yojana and Mukhya Mantri Kaushalya Yojana he said that Madhya Pradesh would be made a state with skill equipped manpower.