Making an attempt to strengthen Punjab’s academic and strategic educational ties with Canada, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday flagged off an 18-member delegation to Canada.
“Education system today needs a paradigm shift with a focus on skill development training in the education system,” said Badal and extended his good wishes to the delegation while presiding over flag-off ceremony meeting with the delegation jointly led by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry regional director Dalip Sharma and Aryans Group of Colleges chairman Dr Anshu Kataria.
Emphasising the need to impart skill training to our youth, Badal categorically asked the delegation to chalk out a strategy with Canadian counterparts during their weeklong stay there, so that need base skill training centers of international standards could be established in the state for imparting short term courses for specific trade and industry.
Taking part in the deliberations, the State Technical Education Minister Madan Mohan Mittal appreciated the unique effort of educationalist and educational consultants form Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh.
“Educational collaborations with foreign countries would definitely help in promoting education besides generating more employment avenues at global level, thereby opening a new horizon for our youth to prove their rare talent and skill,” he said.
Kataria apprised the Chief Minister that the delegation would workout various areas for collaboration with Canada in the field of higher education besides chalking out a bilateral strategy for imparting skill training.
Delegation would also work out a permanent strategy for strengthening Indo-Canadian Educational collaborations, inter-institutional linkages and research cooperation, he said.