Srinagar, June 05 (Scoop News) –Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah who is also Chairman of J&K Skills Development Mission Tuesday reviewed the progress on various initiatives introduced under the Mission to upgrade skills of J&K youth and enhance their employability to get absorbed in job market.
“There is need to ensure placement of trained youth in the corporate sector and that can be realized when the private sector is actively involved in the process of skill upgradation and employability enhancement programme focusing at the requirement in the industry and trade”, he added.
The Chief Minister said that the concerned State Government Departments should take up the matter of roping in NHPC, Railways, National Highway Authority, State Power Development Corporation, JKPCC, J&K Bank and other similar companies to set up ITIs under their corporate social responsibilities towards the society. He said they can traine youth of Jammu and Kashmir in these ITIs in the trades in which they need work force. “This would ensure placement of educated boys and girls in these companies”, he said.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Finance, Abdul Rahim Rather, Minister for Rural Development, Ali Mohammad Sagar, Minister for Technical Education, R. S. Chib, Minister for Industries, S. S. Slathia, Political Advisor to the Chief Minister, Devender Singh Rana, Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal, Principal Secretaries, B. B. Vyas, Sudhanshu Pandey, Administrative Secretaries of various departments and senior officers.
In a PowerPoint presentation, the Planning Commissioner gave overview of the roadmap put in place for achieving the target of upgrading skills of 9.10 lakh youth during the next five years. He gave sector-wise targets fixed for this purpose and the strategy worked out by various departments to realize this target.
The meeting was informed that under the Technical Education sector 2.77 lakh youth are being trained in various skills while in Tourism Department this target is fixed at 14667. The Industries and Commerce Department will train 1.34 lakh persons, Rural Development Department 9500, Horticulture Department 1.50 lakh, Information Technology Department 98000, Health and Medical Education Department 75000, Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department 30000 and under the Udan Programme 37000 youth are being trained.
The Principal Secretary Power told the meeting that the department has identified various trades in which the department requires a good number of work force. He said he has already shared this information with the concerned departments. He said that Grid Corporation of India has been approached to establish 2 ITIs one each at Kashmir and Jammu to provide training to the youth of the State in various skills in which they require the work force.