Stressing the need for making youths employable, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the State Government will provide skill development training to one crore people in the State by 2020.
“The State Government will provide skill development training to one crore youths of the State by 2020 in order to make them self-dependent.
Our youths are meritorious and they just need opportunity ... I am quite confident we will achieve our goals,” Kumar said.
He was addressing a function organised by Bihar Skill Development Mission (BSDM) on the occasion of ‘World Youth Skill Development Day’ here.
Skill development figures in Bihar Government’s ambitious ‘seven resolves’ which talks about overall development of the State and its people.
State’s labour resources department along with BSDM signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation ltd (MKCl), Kumar said, adding MKCl would be the state government’s knowledge partner in the field of skill development.