Interested candidates with minimum educational qualification of eighth standard and aged between 18 years to 28 years, may do short-term vocational courses in tourism sector like housekeeping and food production and that too at free of cost as the Bageshwar district administration is going to run these two aforesaid courses in the district soon.
These vocational courses are being run with the help of the Government of India free of cost. Under the direction of Uttarakhand Tourism Development Council, these vocational courses will soon be started in the district here, said B S Manral, District Magistrate, Bageshwar. Under this training programme, an eight week long food production course is being started at the tourist guest house Kaushani from January 10, 2014 to March 6, 2014. As many as 40 interested candidates will be taken in this food production course, said the Bageshwar District Magistrate.
Similarly, as many as 40 candidates may be able to do a six weeklong housekeeping course which is being started at the tourist guest house at Bageshwar from January 25, 2014 to March 7, 2014, further said the official concerned of the Bageshwar district administration. Interested candidates may download the application form from the website: www.kmvn.gov.in and they may also approach the officials concerned of the respective guest houses where the aforesaid courses are being started at Bageshwar an Kaushani, added the officials concerned.
As the officials concerned informed experts from the Indian Hotel Management Institute, Dehradun will train the candidates on the aforesaid tourism related vocational courses. Apart from providing vocational course related materials free of cost, scholarship worth Rs1,500 to Rs2,000 will also be given to the candidates for doing the said courses, they added.
With minimum educational qualification eighth standard and above, all the candidates in the age group of 18 years to 28 years may do these vocational courses.