JAMMU: State Project Approval Committee of J&K Skill Development Mission on Wednesday day held a meeting under the chairmanship of Principal Secretary to the Government, Education and Technical Education Department Mr. Navin Kumar Choudhary at Civil Secretariat, Jammu. During the meeting, the committee took various decisions which included sanctioning of training targets of 5450 candidates under PMKVY (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana). Under PMKVY, J&K Skill Development Mission (JKSDM) is providing short term placement linked skill courses to unskilled and semiskilled youth of J&K.
During the meeting, fresh training targets of 5450 candidates were allocated to 10 government ITI’s and 38 JKSDM empanelled private training providers, and the trainings will be completed within next 4 months.
Principal Secretary to the Government, Education & Technical Education Department Mr. Navin Kumar Choudhary stressed on the need to provide quality skill trainings in various demand driven sectors such as health, sports, IT etc and also emphasized on the convergence of various government departments in providing short term job oriented skill trainings to youth of J&K.
The Mission, over the last the two years has already trained more than 15000 youth and currently 2324 candidates are undergoing training at various JKSDM empanelled training centres across J&K.
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