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Daijiworld Media Network-Mangaluru (JD)
Mangaluru, Aug 19: “The Chief Minister must train youths of state instead of giving bhagyas to them so that they get superior employability skills compared to people of other states,” said corporate leader TV Mohandas Pai.
He was addressing the media persons in city after disbursing scholarships worth Rs 3.5 crores in the TV Ramana Pai hall.
“It was only after the IT policy implemented in the state in 1997 under the leadership of RV Deshapande, Bengaluru could become the second IT hub of the world next to the Silicon Valley.”
“Today with the direct employment of 15 lac people, it exports IT services worth Rs 3 lac crore annually in the state. We have to make a note that out of the 17 lac, hardly seven lac IT professionals are from Karnataka. Out of the rest Bengalis take the major portion with 1.5 lac professionals. It is the lack of skills in youth many Karnataka do not get jobs in IT sector.”
“Instead of various Bhagyas in the state, the chief minister must open training centres and enhance the skills of graduates so that they need not fly abroad or remain unemployed.”
“Even from Mangaluru, IT graduates are going to Bengaluru and then to the United States. Here the Economic Zone set-up lacks basic infrastructure and lacks political push. I had approached the local people's representatives many months ago but nothing has happened so far. If this trend continues then Mangaluru will be an intellectual desert,” he said.
Speaking about the training given to the students at Vishwa Konkani Kendra along with the scholarship the chairman of VKSSF Ramdas Kamath said, “The students are trained at the Kendra so that they train the next batch of students. They are given training for 18,000 hours to improve their personality and enhance employability skills so that they are employable in any part of the world.”
The president of Akhila Bharatha Konkani Kharvi Mahajana Sabha KB Kharvi explained the difference the Vishwa Konkani Kendra has made in the lives of students and everyone in the community through various aids. “When TV Mohandas Pai approached us, we wanted our students like students trained by Vishwa Konkani Kendra and we didn't seek the scholarship. But due to their scholarships and encouragement this year, 32 students are perusing engineering which started from one student at the beginning.”
“We never received a single pie from the government but now a community centre with the expense of six crore is coming up at Trasi and the present government has given an aide of two crores in this regard,” he said.
Kudumbi Narayana Naik a representative of Kudumbi community said that they being the forest inhabitants have 24 students doing the engineering and a girl student studying the medicine and a centre of theirs is also in the verge of completion in Dupi taluk. All this is due to the efforts of Vishwa Konkani Kendra,” he said.
Adding to what two leaders said, TV Mohan Das Pai said, “The Kendra aims for the overall development of the two communities and this has been taken up as clear Konkani mandate. “I call upon the leaders of the Tulu speaking communities and other linguistic communities to develop the downtrodden in this model.”
MD of Rayan International Group of Institutions Grace Pinto, president of Vishwa Konkani Kendra Basti Vaman Shenoy, entrepreneur Pradeep G Pai, Jagannath Shenoy and others were present on the occasion.