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Govt changes criteria to help surrendered naxals train in high-tech skills

The MSDE also commenced its partnership with Ministry of Home Affairs where surrendered LWE can take admission to an institute, while receiving a stipend of Rs 6000 per month for a maximum period of three years.

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The Centre has tweaked enrollment criteria to enable surrendered Left-Wing Extremists (LWE) take admission to ITIs to gain skills in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotic process automation, internet of things, robotics, big data analytics, 3D printing, etc. Since there is a great demand globally for skilled persons in these fields, the central government, in league with states, is introducing such courses in ITIs all over the country, including areas plagued with LWE.

Emphasising on the need for strengthening institutional mechanisms for skill development at the state level, Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), supervised the signing of an MoU between the Directorate General of Training (DGT) & NASSCOM (National Association of Software Services Companies) for training youth in high-tech fields.

The MSDE also commenced its partnership with Ministry of Home Affairs where surrendered LWE can take admission to an institute, while receiving a stipend of Rs 6000 per month for a maximum period of three years. "It has been found that most of such people do not have the requisite qualification to get admission to ITIs. Therefore, the qualification criteria has been tweaked, to help them secure gainful wage in high-tech skills or through self-employment," said Pradhan.

Recognising the concurrent nature of the MSDE, a conference in New Delhi marked the launch of new Affiliation Norms 2018, restoring the primacy of state government in the affiliation process. Affiliation Norms 2018 aims at establishing high quality institutions for skill training in all parts of the country. To ensure transparency in the affiliation process, a portal was designed and launched at the event. The process is divided into three stages to make it simpler.

Addressing state representatives, Pradhan said, "Vocational training is a concurrent subject and thus it is imperative that the Centre and state governments work closely to ensure a paradigm shift in addressing the issues relevant to skill development and identify the gaps to achieve the objectives in terms of quantity and quality outreach, and mobility, while building the largest human resource exercise that we have undertaken. The states should align themselves to reforms being done to our central initiatives like Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKK), Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), and National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS)."

New Affiliation Norms

  • Recognising the concurrent nature of the MSDE, a conference in New Delhi marked the launch of Affiliation Norms 2018, restoring the primacy of state govt in the affiliation process. The new norms aim to establish high quality institutions for skill training across the country. To ensure transparency in the process, a portal was designed. It is divided into three stages to make it simpler.
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