In order to make youth employable in the city, Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi Government has planned to build an innovative vocational university in the national Capital, which is the first-of-its-kind. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that Government will ensure that youth get jobs after completing their vocational education in this university, saying that the AAP Government also wants to make Delhi an education hub and change the system “revolutionarily”.
“In order to provide innovative skills and vocational programmes to our youth, I am planning to separately build an innovative vocational university in Delhi,” Sisodia said, while addressing CII Delhi State Annual Session. The Minister, however, said that this project is now in a nascent stage and consultation with experts from different fields is on.
“We now have Delhi engineering college, but cannot expand it further. For Arts, we have IP University, but the same situation prevails. There is an urgent need to set up such an innovative university,” he said.
According to plan, certificate, diploma and graduation courses will be offered by this university, which would make youth employable. “There is no concept of further education here, but we have to change the system. A person, who has left his education midway, will be able to take admission to this university and pursue a course of his choice. If he returns, he will again be imparted vocational education and given a diploma or certificate,” he said.
Sisodia also said the Government wants to turn Delhi into a knowledge hub. “We have to make efforts to achieve a target of 20 per cent growth rate. There is a need to think outside, no box required. Youth between 18 and 25 years want to innovate. There is also a need to offer them some leeway,” he said.
“Government aims to make job creators so that a chain of command can be built and then, more jobs will be created,” he said. The Deputy Chief Minister also said that Government has decided to track the current status of students who cleared Class XII exams last year.
“last year, 1.37 lakh students cleared Class XII, but we don’t have data as to what they are presently doing. To know the current status, we have started to telephone these students about their present status. We should not only think about 100 per cent exam results, but also think of making students good citizens. We also have to think about what we are giving back to society,” Sisodia said. Sisodia, who recently written to the HRD Ministry to seek review of no-detention policy, said that this policy makes parents and students more accountable.