Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has said that the Government, administration, educational institutions and industry should work in tandem to push up self- employment opportunities in Uttarakhand. He suggested this while holding discussions with a delegation of the Industrial Association of Uttarakhand at the State Secretariat on Wednesday.
laying special thrust on the mountainous districts of the State, CM said that work has to be done on the skill development training aside from creating awareness for the vocational courses instead of conventional ones and imparting soft skill training to the youth to help them increase their income.
He stressed on dialogue between the industry and academic institutions and said that the district employment offices should not restrict themselves to mere registration of the unemployed. Asking the officers to be pro-active, Rawat suggested that these offices should compile a data pertaining to the special qualification and skills of the unemployed and they should provide it to the captains of industry and the investors.
District employment offices should also do career counselling, he stressed.
It was decided in course of the meeting that the cluster-based hubs should be developed for large-scale production. CM said that skill development and training can prove effective in stopping migrating from the hill districts of the state.
The principal secretary, MSME, Manisha Panwar said that 103 growth centers in the state have been earmarked with one lead product each. She added that work is being done in a serious manner on developing the growth centres at the block level.
The growth centres being developed will help in providing employment at the local level and they would also play an effective role in halting migration by helping the people to branch out in multiple avenues of livelihood earning.
The meeting was also attended among others by the chief secretary Utpal Kumar Singh and secretary Soujanya besides senior officials of the industry department and office bearers of the Industrial Association Uttarakhand.