Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Thursday said that the state will witness a revolution in enhancing skill development and generation of self-employment as the Union Government has approved to set up 1000 skill development centres in the state and nearly five lakh youth will be imparted training from the state every year.
Sukhbir, interacting with media persons after laying the foundation stone of an ITI at Sofi village along with Union Minister for State Vijay Sampla, said that Punjab would be the major gainer under 'Skill India' program initiated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The skill centres not only provides self-employment to youth but also provide professional and skilled work force to the industry,” he said while announcing that all banks would provide loans at low interest up to Rs 10 lakh to the trainees and entrepreneurs to start their units.
On the proposed domestic airport at Adampur, he said that the administrative work on that project has been completed and the physical work would be initiated soon.
Announcing a major project for the overall development of the villages, Sukhbir said that the Punjab government has fixed the next target to provide 100 percent sewerage, concrete roads and solar lights in all 12,400 villages of the state at a cost of Rs 35,000 crore in next five years.
He also informed that out of 167 cities or towns, the work on sewerage and water supply has been accomplished with Rs 9,000 crore whereas the remaining cities would be covered till March 31, 2017, under this project.
Sampla, in his address, said that the SAD-BJP government under Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal’s leadership has set the new records of development and the coalition would contest elections on the agenda of development and brotherhood.
Technical Education Minister Madan Mohan Mittal announced that the classes in this ITI would start from next academic session as the project would be completed within a year at a cost of Rs 13.85 crore.