Punjab Government is all set to establish research centre for the upgradation of syllabus of the technical education and industrial training.
“The experts from the industry, technical education experts and industrialists would be included in the research panel to make syllabus of the ITIs and technical education as per needs of the present and future industry,” said State Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday.
Channi, while addressing a Press conference after the inaugural function of ‘Mega Job Fair’ at Chandigarh University Gharuan, said that after every three years, the syllabus would be reviewed and upgraded in consultation with the experts.
“Around Rs 100 crore would be spent on the strengthening of infrastructure of Government ITIs and Polytechnic colleges this year,” he said. Earlier addressing the inaugural session, Channi said that Mega Job Fair is unique initiative of the Punjab Government in the visionary leadership Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to not only provide jobs to the youth of the state but build confidence between all the stakeholders.
“Punjab Government, in the shape of 'Mega Job Fests', has provided a single platform to all stakeholders which includes industrialists, educational institutes and students. In the first phase, about four lakh students have registered online on the Government portal and these Job Fairs are beings held at 21 different venues across the State in which about 900 companies are participating to recruit the students as per their requirements,” he said.
Channi said that after the completion of the first phase of this recruitment drive, the Chief Minister would hand over appointment letters to 50,000 youth on September 5 at Mohali.
Punjab Government is also working on the model that the students gets recruited in the last semester and the industry should train them on apprenticeship and award stipend, he said.