Exhorting the industrialists to play a proactive role in promoting technical education by setting up ‘Integrated Skill Centers’ in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday said that these were mandatory for safeguarding the interests of youth, State and even the entrepreneurs.
Badal, addressing the members of National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on late Wednesday evening, categorically said that imparting skill training to the youth was the need of hour to make them gainfully self-employed on one hand and to create a pool of skilled manpower to cope up with the needs of the local industry on the other.
“Every industrialist must dedicate 50 per cent of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) for setting up skill centres in their respective State.
“It is paradoxical that on one hand, industry has been grappling with non-availability of skilled manpower, and on the other hand, a vast majority of youth was without jobs so there is a dire need to remove this gap by imparting skill training to the youth for which industrial tycoons could play a pivotal role,” said Badal.