As many as 10,400 unemployed youths of Ranchi falling in the below poverty line (BPl) category will be trained by Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) under the flagship programme of National Urban livelihood Mission (NUlM) in several skill development chores from August 1.
The Urban development department has issued the instructions and has set the guidelines for selecting the appropriate candidates ward wise.
The unemployed youths will be trained in 13 different trades for approximately 3 to 7 months at different locations.
“Approximately 13 trades like computer designing, plumbing, sewing, beautician course, graphic designing and other courses have been selected. The candidates will be selected as per their specific qualification for different trades and will be trained under the supervision of an expert.
The companies which will train the students have been selected by the Urban Development Department. Rs 15 thousand per head for training has been sanctioned by the department this time,” said, Deputy Mayor, Sanjeev Vijaywargia.
Approximately, 37 agencies have been empanelled by the Urban Department to train the candidates in different trades.
“In the first phase, 60,000 unemployed urban poor of all the 24 districts falling in age group of 18 to 45 will be trained in different professions. As per the guideline issued, all the empanelled agencies have to give their preference for the locations, which will best suit them to guide the people, exposing them to different facets of different jobs,” said, City Mission Manager (Social and Infrastructure Developer), Vikash Shukla.
“Ward Councillors too have been actively involved in this project and candidates with all valid documents can approach them for getting themselves enrolled with this specific scheme. The civic body is giving preferences to those centres in urban pockets, which can mobilize the crowd to participate and get the training in several skill development projects. To ensure the regular monitoring of this ambitious scheme, the corporation has ensured CCTVs cameras, bio-metric attendance at different study centres,” added, Shukla.