Chief Minister Raman Singh on Wednesday announced to open new colleges at Sariya and Pusour in the district from the new academic session.
For the Socio-economic development of the residents of the State, the State government has launched many such schemes, which looks to be small, but its wide and positive effect has come clearly to the fore, he said while addressing public meeting after inaugurating the ‘Rozgar Mela and Career Madayi’ organised by the Technical Education and Manpower Planning Department with the assistance of the District Administration at Raigarh district headquarters here on his first visit to the district after the Assembly polls in the State.
The Chief Minister said that his government is committed to the service and betterment of the residents of the State, in accordance to the mandate.
Addressing the ‘Rozgar Mela and Career Madayi’, the Singh said that through the schemes launched during the last two terms of his government, economic development of the state is going on in a rapid pace. Every village has irrigation pump, motorcycle, tractor and transformer and every house has many modern equipment like television set. As such, for the repairing of these equipment, need for trained youths has been felt.
Youths of the age group of 15-45 years, will now develop their skills in such trades and earn job. For that skill upgradation scheme has been started, in which they would be imparted free of cost training. During the next financial year about two lakh youths of the state would be imparted skill upgradation training in different professions, he said.
The Chief Minister dedicated Srijan training building constructed under the BRGF scheme with a cost of `1.78 crore on the Raigarh collectorate premises. On the occasion Singh inaugurated District Rehabilitation Centre and distributed Tri-cycle, Wheelchair, Hearing aid etc to 74 physically impaired persons.
Addressing the public at Mini Stadium, the Chief Minister said that to give more opportunity for job to the less educated and the school drop outs, the government has decided to give them first opportunity of skill development and for that along with skill upgradation scheme, the Skill Development Rights Act has been implemented. It would be the responsibility of administration to impart them training within 90 days of application.
So far, about 700 trades have been marked for it, for which training syllabus for three to six months have been prepared. About 2,563 vocational trainers have been registered, through them the youths would be imparted training.
Home, Jail and PHED Minister Ramsevak Paikra, Manpower Planning and Higher Education Minister Premprakash Pandey, MP Vishnudev Sai, MlAs Roshanlal Agrawal, Sunita Rathiya and Kera Bai Manhar, Mayor Mahendra Chauhatha and other peoples’ representatives were present at the function.