About 6,615 urban poor youth have been trained in Skill Development under the National Skill Development Programme in Chhattisgarh during 2014-15, officials stated.
About 10,954 youth had been registered for Skill Development Programme.
A total of 4,339 youth are currently undergoing training.
The National Skill Development Programme for urban poor youth is operating in all the 27 districts of Chhattisgarh. The youth are trained in trades like Data Entry, D.T.P.Telly, banking and accounting, plumbing, masonry, sewing, embroidery, website, assistants, ayahs, driving, cooking, security guards, beauty parlour and hair-dyeing, book binding, gardening, tailoring, garments' making training is given to the trainees, officials stated.
The Programme had been launched to give training to the poor urban youth and to prepare them for employment and self-employment.
The youth are being guided to become self-reliant economically and socially.
The trainee youth have to undergo tests and they are awarded certificates also.
The target of the Union Government is to train five crore youth in Skills' Development Programme till the year 2022.
Notably, the Centre had received proposals from seven left Wing Extremism (lWE) affected districts of Chhattisgarh for opening Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) for Skill Development of the youth in the States, officials stated.
The proposals were received for districts of Dantewada, Bastar, Kanker, Surguja, Rajnandgaon, Bijapur and Narayanpur.
The Directorate General of Training, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India has received proposals from 9 States to open 34 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in 34 left Wing Extremism affected districts.
An amount of Rs 94.14 crore has been released to nine States to establish 34 ITIs and 68 Skill Development Centers (SDCs) across the identified 34 districts.