Under the Chief Minister Skill Development Scheme imparting training programme for various occupational fields in all 27 district for total one lakh 68 000 people is the target set by state government in current fiscal, Informed in third meeting of executive committee of Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Mission held in Mahanadi Bhavan , Mantralaya in NayaRaipur on Wednesday.
Additional Chief Secretary of Panchayat and Rural development and labour department Vivek Dhand chaired the executive committee meeting. For current fiscal 2013-14 a work plan was approved in the meeting for Skill Development Scheme. According to the approved work plan, preparation to provide training to one lakh 68,000 people was discussed and required instructions have been given to the concerned officials.
Notably Chhattisgarh is the first state which has drafted a law for skill Development Right and got the bill passed in budget session in order to get its youth be dextrous and skilled. Under this youth are equipped with right to choose an occupation and get training for that. Dhand instructed the department to issue a notification soon for this law. Addition chief secretary of Finance and planning department D S Mishra and other members of executive committee were also present.
Under ‘Mukhyamantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana’ local people especially youths of the state would be given opportunities in intensive training programme to get their respective skill honed with the help of various Industries, Occupational Institutions and Industrial organizations .according to the state government wish endeavour for coordination among PSUs link BhilaSteel Plant (BSP), National Mineral development Corporation (NMDC), National Thermal power Corporation (NTPC) and South Eastern Coal Field ltd (SECl) is going on.
Yearly plan under skill development programme was prepared in all the districts for fiscal 2013-14. Under this mission for various curriculum voluntary training providers (VTPs) were registered from public and private sectors. It was informed in the meeting that under Chief Minister Skill Development Scheme of Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Mission, 100 trainees of Government's Industrial Training Institutes and Maana have been sent to Andhra Pradesh for skill development training. Chhattisgarh Skill Development Mission has set the target of training 60,000 beneficiaries in year 2013-14 under SDI scheme of Central Government, for achieving which a fund of Rs 31 crore has been demanded from Central Government.
It was also informed that the web-portal of Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Mission has been prepared, which will consist of entire details about registered VTPs, number of trainees etc. In the meeting, Principal Secretary Forest Sunil Kujur, Principal Secretary Agriculture Ajay Singh, Principal Secretary Health MK Raut, Principal Secretary Women and Child Development Subrat Sahu, Secretary Technical Education Nidhi Chhibbar, Secretary Revenue KR Pisda, Secretary SC and ST Development Manok Kumar Pingua, Director Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Mission Santosh Mishra, CEO livelihood College OP Choudhary and other officials were also present.