26 MOU signed between industries and ITIs for skill development

Gandhinagar, 15 September 2012

Inaugurating ‘Industry Responsive Skill Convention’ at Mahatma Mandir today the Chief Minister Narendra Modi expressed resolve for giving priority to skill development in youths through public-private-partnership model to cater to the needs of industries. He said the state’s ITIs have already signed 119 MoU with the industries for various skill development programmes.

The convention was jointly organized under the aegis of state’s industries department, iNDEXTb and industries association as a precursor of forthcoming Global Investors’ Summit 2013 and with a view to assure employment opportunities to the youths. On the occasion, as many as 26 MoUs were signed between ITIs and industries.

Speaking on the occasion the chief minister said that analysed the requirements of industries and chalked out ITI training courses as per the industry demand. This has made Gujarat a state with the least unemployment, he said.

“Even as our country has the highest population of youths, we need to empower them so that they can emerge as a growth engine for global economy”, he said. “With this view, we have launched programmes for providing training of ‘hard skills’ and ‘soft skills’ to the youths.” He also highlighted the state’s programmes such as iCreate, SCOPE and eMPOWER.

Gujarat Government has taken a number of initiatives such as upgradation of ITIs, setting up of 20 superior technology training centre, about 1074 skill development and training courses and new skill generation training centre network under PPP model, he said.

“India will need to adopt the strategy of SCOPE, SCALE, SKILL and SPEED if we want to compete with China”, said Mr.Modi.

Finance Minister Vajubhai Vala spoke about the healthy relationship between Industries and labourers in the state and lauded the cooperation extended by the industries and people in state’s development. TCS’s S.Mahalingam credited the success of PPP model in Gujarat to the farsighted leadership of Mr.Modi.

Experts of skill development sector from across the world, Principal Secretary to Labour and Employment P.Panirvel, Principal Secretary to Industries Maheshwar Sahu, senior officials of labour and employment department and youths in large number were present on the occasion.