Jharkhand Skill Development Mission (JSDM) today organised a workshop for all the stakeholders of skill development programmes in Jharkhand. The workshop was participated by national agencies working for improving skills besides State Government functionaries responsible for most of framing policies for such programmes that are aimed at making people self sustainable.
“Skill development is extremely important for the development of the state. However, we need to conduct a survey of people who will be imparted training and that training should match their skills. There should be a value addition in the beneficiary. We need to bring all the stakeholders into these programmes,” said Director General of SKIPA, Sudhir Prasad. Website of the mission was launched on the occasion with an objective of providing an insight into the programmes conducted in Jharkhand and elsewhere in the country. The website was launched by Development Commissioner RS Poddar. “Training programmes can be encouraged according to the requirements of manpower of the corporate world,” maintained Poddar at the launch of the website.
The programme also focused on works done by government agencies to provide means of livelihood to the marginalized section of the society like linking tribal community with Jharkraft, lac cultivation and emphasized on creating a value chain for people linked with government projects related to livelihood promotion.
The workshop was attended by PCCF, DK Shrivastava; MD Jharkraft, Dhirendra Kumar; Director Fisheries, Rajiv Kumar; Special Secretary, department of labour, KK Sinha; CEO, Jharkhand livelihood Mission, Paritosh Upadhyay and representatives of institutions engaged in skill development programmes.