Union Petroleum and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated a Prime Minister Skill Development Centre at Dharmagarh in Kalahandi district on Thursday in the presence of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Pradhan said the skill development centre would help local youths in enhancing skills and becoming self reliant in terms of earning livelihoods. Training programmes on different trades in duration of three months, six months, nine months and a year would be imparted by the Centre, he said.
A total of 1,000 youths will be provided training on bio farming, plumber work, tailoring, and electric repairing at the Centre each year. Then, a job fair would be ornganised to provide income source to each of them. The skill development centre has a special aim to line traditional arts with skill programme.
Shree Shree Rural Development Trust has set up the Centre in support of the Union Ministry of the Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.