Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (AF)
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Mangalore, Apr 2: Plans are on the anvil to set up 50,000 vocational training schools in the country for honing the skills of youth in employment-based ventures.
This was revealed by union minister for labour Oscar Fernandes who was in the city to lay the foundation stone for a building for the employment information and guidance bureau of Mangalore University here on Tuesday April 1.
The vocational schools will be part of central government's plan to launch 'skill mission' for the benefit of youth. Discussions to this effect have been already made at a meeting with union finance minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi, he added. Moreover, talks are going on with industry officials to implement the mission, though no date has been decided upon for the launch of the mission.
Apart from skill mission, plans are also afoot to set up 1,500 industrial training institutes (ITIs) in select taluks all over the country.
Later, at an interaction session with the students, Fernandes urged the students to fight against corruption and make optimum use of Right to Information Act. Responding to a request by University vice-chancellor K M Kaveriappa to provide funds for improving the University's infrasrtucture, Fernandes said that the funds will be alloted soon.
The new bureau building will be constructed at a cost of Rs 75.74 lac, funded by the career guidance fee collected from the students.
Among those present were University registrar Sunder Naik and employment guidance centre director Prof A K Baradol.