PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
Chief secretary Anand Bardhan has said that the skill development plan of the State should be prepared as per the requirement of the industries and its focus should be on bridging the gap between industry demand and training. He was addressing a meeting held in the State secretariat to discuss the State Skill Development Plan. The representatives of the Skill Development and Employment department, private training institutes and industry attended the meeting.
In the meeting, the CS directed that all skill development plans of all the districts should be prepared and uploaded on the portal soon. He emphasized the need to develop a plan based on the employment potential, available training facilities and demand in the districts.
The CS said that skill development programmes should be conducted by identifying areas where there is employment potential but appropriate training courses are not available. He said that the gap between industry needs and the training needs should be identified and addressed and to achieve this, a plan should be developed by assessing employment opportunities and training goals in each sector. The CS said that special attention should be paid to the study conducted by the State Institute for Empowering and Transforming Uttarakhand (SETU) commission in this regard.
Emphasizing the need to link skill development programmes with the actual needs of industries, the CS directed that coordination with the Confederation of Indian Industry and prestigious engineering colleges should be established. He said that to ensure the quality of training programmes and standards should be set for all training programmes conducted in the State, so that uniformity can be achieved in the quality of training.
In the meeting the CS directed regular assessment of training programmes and third-party audits to verify their quality. He stated that the objective of skill development programmes should not only be to train youth but also to provide them with better employment opportunities by equipping them with skills that meet industry demands.
Secretary C Ravishankar, Sridhar Babu Addanki and others attended the meeting.
