Global fin giant reviews UP's skill development efforts
Lucknow: In its mission to empower youth through
skill development
and take the state's economy to trillion-dollar target, minister for
vocational education
and skill development, Kapil Dev Agarwal, on Wednesday met representatives from
Deloitte India
.
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Reviewing progress of various skill development schemes and discussing future initiatives, Agarwal said govt's focus was on quality training and making youth employable. According to Agarwal, govt planned to combine local needs with modern technology while training youths.
Additionally, govt is working with industrial training institutes and Skill Development Mission to launch job-oriented courses that will help young people find employment easily.
The minister urged Deloitte representatives to participate in regular meetings for next two years and come up with progress report. Agarwal instructed his team to provide quality training to youth to help them get jobs and earn livelihood.
During the meeting, Agarwal said promoting apprenticeships is one of the top priorities and all stakeholders must have effective communication with each other so that there was no dearth of opportunities for youth.
He also asked officials to review schemes based on feedback from students, including random calls and field inspections to engage directly with students. The minister suggested that organising programmes and meetings at divisional level will expedite implementation of schemes.
For effective monitoring, data on training given to youths, including their trade and mobile numbers, should be recorded on the Skill Mitra portal, he said.
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During the meeting, some of the youths who underwent training were contacted by phone and positive feedback was received about the schemes.
Principal secretary, vocational education and skill development, Hariom and director, Skill Development Mission, Pulkit Khare, participated in the meeting.
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