Minister for Industries Mekapati Gowtham Reddy has said the government wanted to create employment opportunities in line with the aspirations of the youth across the State.
Addressing a review meeting attended by the officials of the Departments of Industry, Skill Development and other allied wings here on Tuesday, the Minister said volunteers of village and ward secretariats should conduct a survey focusing on the aspirations of the youth in every nook and corner of the State. He wanted the officials to prepare comprehensive reports on the different initiatives being taken by the different departments and agencies on creation of job opportunities and self-help programmes.
He said the job of the village and ward-level volunteers would be to collect a detailed information about youth and their categories based on their educational qualifications -- school, college, university or even school dropouts. The aspirations of each category should be identified and the information thus collected should be included in the report, he said.
Mr. Reddy said the skill development training being imparted through different departments in the State was in accordance with the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF), a competency-based framework that organises all qualifications according to a series of levels of knowledge, skills and aptitude. The certificates issued by NSQF were valid at the national and international level.
He said the State Skill Development Corporation would play a catalyst’s role in upscaling the training programmes being imparted now through the SC, ST, BC, Minorities and other Backward Classes’ wings.
Training
The Minister said after the completion of the survey by the village and ward-level volunteers, training would be given to the youth in skill development. The departments concerned should prepare a report on the basic facilities available in their respective wings.
Informing that the government had been implementing over 2,600 training and other programmes through its various departments, the Minister said the first set of people would be trained at the district level who in turn would train others.
The Minister wanted the officials to chalk out an action plan on the training programme and key issues such as identification of training partners and the facilities needed by them to impart the training, technical expertise, timing of the training period and job opportunities after completion of the training.
Principal Secretary G. Ananth Ram, Vijayawada Central MLA Malladi Vishnu, Chairmen of various corporations, Managing Director of Skill Development Corporation Arja Srikanth and others were present.
