Stressing on Government’s commitment on skill development Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan said that state government has generated over 50,000 jobs and has decided to upgrade 280 state-run ITIs from current academic session so that students could get quality vocational training. “The state is all set to get a qualified work force in near future as government has increased training capacity in ITIs to over 1.11 lakh. The outdated trades have been scrapped and in its place in job training courses have been introduced,” Ranjan told reporters here on Wednesday. He said that under the development agenda of the government in last two fiscals of 2013-14 and 2014-15 over 46600 seats have been increased in ITIs. In the same time the government has generated over 50,000 jobs and it has ensured that majority of them get jobs in good companies, he said.
“To link these training programme with jobs the government has signed MoUs with Meja Power project and Roza thermal power company where these trained youths will get training and could later be absorbed in the same company,” he said. Chief Secretary said that new course of electrician power distribution would be introduced in 17 institutions. This will be operated in collaboration with UPPCl. Besides under Apprenticeship Training scheme 38,000 seats have been identified in 9800 institutions. “To introduce modern training technique in ITIs government has made it mandatory to have at least one smart class in each institution,” he said.