In a major plan to curb unemployment, migration and poverty in Jharkhand, the State Government on Tuesday launched Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Project aiming to provide vocational training to 20 lakh youths within 5 years.
Chief Minister Raghubar Das launched the project announcing rewards for trainers and trainees and a lot off vacancies in the Government to be shortly filled.
Addressing a gathering at JlN Stadium during the launch of the project the Chief Minister announced the best trainer in skilling the target group in various trades would have a chance to visit the global financial centre of the world, Singapore after successfully imparting the training sessions in stimulated time. The State Government would also felicitate the best candidate who got an immediate placement in reputed firm in their chosen field.
“Two lakh rupees will be given to the best trainee performing all training tasks well and who gets immediately placed in some reputed organisation after completing the chosen course. Best trainer will get a chance to visit Singapore,” said the Chief Minister.
Das emphasised on proper utilisation of human resources by associating youths in various traits. From January, all Government high schools would have to conduct vocational courses training sessions along with the academic courses. Soon the officials of State Government would conduct meeting with the top executes of corporate houses to place the skilled force in their respective companies.
“In order to curb migration this is the best tool. The Government is also planning to sign MoUs with few reputed organisations to absorb all the skilled workers according to their field of expertise. Nobody will migrate in search of job or will be exploited anymore,” added Das.
Taking the mission ahead, the State Government will provide more funds to Skill Development department, Higher and Technical Education Department to cover maximum people falling in the age group 18 to 35 years. Focusing on women empowerment, separate training centres for females will also be established besides the mega training skill development centre establishment project.
lack of skilled workforces has pushed the deadline of supplying benches and desks to Government cradles by January 26 as decided earlier. “We reluctantly have to shift the deadline of January 2017 as the work is yet to get over. This is due to the absence of trained labourers. The Government needs support of skilled hands in different fields. Approximately, 30 lakh toilets will be constructed across the State, one lakh ‘Shakhi Mandal’ will be recruited to assist villagers in different occupations,” Das pointed out.
At present, 76 lakh youths in Jharkhand fall in the age group 18 to 35 years out of the total population of 3.30 crore. Project initiated on pilot basis in State trained 2,542 youths in different occupations. So far, 406-trained personnel are now lending their services in different firms. In the next five year, the State Government targets to cover 20 lakh youths and utilise their skills in various sectors.
“Around 12 lakh youths will be guided by Jharkhand Skill Development Society Mission while eight lakh will be trained by several government sectors and industrial setup professionals. Presently, 95 Skill Development Centres are functioning across the State covering 19 segments. Approximately, 60 subjects are being taught to the students and 9000 youths are undergoing training across the State,” said, Secretary, Higher and Technical Education, Ajay Kumar Singh.
Streams like agriculture, banking, IT, tourism, hospitality, capital goods, logistics, retail, health etc. is covered under the skill development project. Database of all candidates are prepared through Hunar web portal. All the eligible candidate need to register the details before enrolling themselves. Skill development training will be provided free of cost and students can avail the facility of residential and non-residential learning as per their convenience.