ZIRO, 18 Sep: Helping Hands president and Delhi Police Special Commissioner Robin Hibu said the Skill Development Training Centre (SDTC) at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre (MSC), Hong will train and skill the youth to be eligible for job placements within and outside India.
Robin said this during the virtual inauguration of the SDTC at MSC, Hong village here on Wednesday. In the first phase, electrician and plumber trades with intake capacity of 24 trainees in each trade was inaugurated at the center.
Saying that the trainees would be provided best of the training and skills in their chosen trades by qualified master trainers deputed by Medhavi Skill University, Delhi, Robin said, “the University would also ensure the trainees get job placements within the country and abroad after completion of their training.”
“We handle lakhs of criminal cases at the National Capital Region and of these, 65 percent of the criminals are young people who are school dropouts. The opening of the SDTC at MSC, Hong, is an attempt to fruitfully engage the school dropout youth of the district and impart them the necessary trainings and skills to be employable at the private sector companies,” explained Robin, while adding, “a modest opening has been made today with introduction of two trades and more trades are likely to be introduced at the center in the coming days.”
Skill development and entrepreneurship assistant director Gyati Kacho suggested convergence and collaboration between the MSC, Hong and the Industrial Training Institute, Manipolyang Ziro in undertaking of the training programmes. He also suggested the training provider of MSC, Hong to register the trainees at the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) portal to ensure trainees get to avail ‘On-The Job Training’ at reputed private sector companies outside the state along with stipends provided both by central and state govts.
The virtual inaugural function was also attended by chancellor of Medhavi Skill University Pravesh Dudani, Jamia Milia University Innovation and Skill Training director prof. Rihan Khan and pro-chancellor Medhavi Skills University Kuldip Sharma.
Earlier, ZPM Punyo Kathe, MSC Hong coordinator Punyo Hinda and DHO Hibu Dante also spoke on the occasion.
