Chennai:
In a bid to nurture the skills of unemployed youth and provide them with salaried jobs and self employment, the state’s first model skill development training centre funded by Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship was inaugurated at SA Engineering College campus here on Saturday.
Termed as Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (PMKK), the Centre, which could skill around 2,000 youth in Thiruvallur district, was inaugurated by AIADMK’s Thiruvallur MP P Venugopal.
The Centre is being set up by SA Engineering College in association with UTL Technologies, a skill training provider, at the campus in an area of 9,000 square feet with a target to provide training and employment to 3,000 candidates in the next three years.
Talking to Express, chief executive officer of UTL Technologies J Srinivasa Raju said that his organisation will be setting up five more centres across the state by February next year. The centres are part of the Ministry’s initiative of setting up 600 aspirational state-of-the art model skill development centres to fast track skill development activities in the country.
“We will be setting up Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra in Nagapatinam, Villupuram, Chidambaram, Chennai South and Vellore,” said Raju.
“The Centre would offer training to youth in five core sectors which include telecom, retail, banking and electronics,” he said.
The focus would be to skill unemployed youth, school dropouts, college dropouts, diploma holders and also engineers, he said. “There is no training fee and entire training is subsidised and funded by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship,” he added.
Interestingly, Raju is planning to woo the youth through skill melas and said the youngsters would be selected based on eligibility criteria being fixed by the centre.
P Venkatesh Raja, director of S A Engineering College, said that the Centre would transform the institution into a quality centre enhancing the students’ skill and knowledge.
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