Training in trades in accordance with industries’ demands will be started in the State’s industrial training institutes (ITIs). A Karigar Samriddhi Yojana will be launched to train traditional rural artisans in crafts to meet present-day requirements. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that such arrangements should be made that youths become entrepreneurs and employers and earn handsome profits.
The Chief Minister was reviewing activities of Technical Education and Skill Development Department here today. Technical Education Minister Umashankar Gupta, Chief Secretary Anthony DeSa, Principal Secretary Technical Education Sanjay Singh and Secretary to CM Hari Ranjan Rao were also present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister directed for every district’s skill mapping. He said that assessment of industries’ possible requirements will be made in the context of Global Investors Summit as well as existing industries in the district. Training programmes in accordance with these should be conducted in local ITI and skill development centre. Courses should be revised and new courses started as per requirement. Unnecessary courses should be abolished.
The meeting was informed that the department will launch Karigar Samriddhi Yojana next year. Under the scheme, skill gap of trainees will be identified as per prescribed norms of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). After their pre-assessment, they will be certified by MPCVET and NSDC. large scale vocational and employment opportunities will open up through certification for trainees.
The meeting was informed that work is progressing at a rapid pace to run ITIs in their own buildings. After completion of this work, remaining 70 ITIs will be affiliated to NCVT. Institute for Training for Trainers has come up at Bhopal, which will start functioning from current month.
A proposal has been sent to the Central Government for setting up Mega ITIs under PPP mode at Indore and Ujjain and Model ITIs at Bhopal and Gwalior. Private sector is being motivated to open ITIs in unserviced areas.
Under Flexy MoU Scheme, efforts have been made to associate local industries with ITIs. Initiative is being taken to impart technical training along with regular education to students. As per modern-day requirement, duration of ITI courses has been increased to 1200 hours.