PanIIT Alumni Reach for India Foundation (PARFI), announced the launch of Kalyan Gurukul, a multi-trade skill development centre, to facilitate skilling and increase opportunities for employment for the economically backward youth.
This new skill training centre is part of PARFI’s ongoing initiative to skill youth in Jharkhand and make them industry ready, thus creating employment.
The Gurukul will be run by PReJHA Foundation a joint initiative by Department of Welfare, Government of Jharkhand and PanIIT Alumni Reach for India Foundation (PARFI) which has been setup with an objective to enable skill development and entrepreneurship to under privileged sections and will aim to set up one Gurukul in each district of Jharkhand as its initial mandate. PReJHA is a non-profit joint enterprise to implement and scale sustainable welfare initiatives.
This initiative replicates the Gurukul model of learning for skill development across all the districts of the state and thus provide a network of sub-ITI institutions accessible to schools drop-outs, underprivileged and those who are from the lower strata of the socio economic background.
Inaugurating the centre, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said, “It is important to provide the youth with the requisite skills that will make them employable. This new Gurukul in Hazaribagh will help create skilled manpower and ensure sustainable employment, thus improving the socio economic status of our people."