Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia on Friday inaugurated a new academic block with state-of-the-art infrastructure, a luxurious cosmetology lab and a modern plumbing lab at ITI in Jahangirpuri area.
On this occasion, Sisodia, who is also Education Minister of Delhi, said that the talented students coming out of training institutes like ITI will write a new chapter in the future.
“Our country will become developed only when every youth of the country is skilled. Our ITI students are getting jobs in big companies due to their exceptional skills, but now there is a need to create such an environment so that they become not only job seekers but also job creators,” said Sisodia. “The students must do their work in such a way that new jobs get created because of their efforts. Quality labs are being set up in ITIs as per market requirements so that children can get hands-on experience for field work,” said Sisodia. “These days, the focus is on professional courses all over the world. But even today, along with India and other developing countries, it is a given in minds of children that if they do not complete their graduation, they have achieved nothing. On the contrary, in developed countries focus is on technical education,” said Sisodia.
“Today, when a job vacancy with 8th class eligibility criteria is released, thousands of graduates apply for job. In such a situation, what is the use of that graduation degree which cannot get you a job?” said Sisodia.“This mindset has started changing in many countries of world and they have started moving away from their traditional beliefs regarding education and have started focusing on technical education.
In India, too, we need to move forward with this thinking. In the last few years there has been a tremendous change in ITIs and quality technical education has been promoted here keeping in view the market demand,” said Sisodia.