Chandigarh, March 12 – Haryana Chief Minister today said that Sh. Vishwakarma Skill University (SVSU) will set up a Centre of Excellence in its upcoming campus in Dudhola, Palwal under Public Private Partnership to provide world class training in partnership with industries and associations.
The Chief Minister, who also holds the portfolio of the Finance Department, disclosed this while presenting the State Budget for the year 2021-22 during the ongoing budget session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha today.
He said that SVSU will also start Apprenticeship/Internship embedded Degree Programme from the next session in Palwal campus under its Applied Sciences and Humanities, Management Studies and Agriculture programmes. The SVSU plans to design and develop ‘Vishwakarma Kaushal Rath’, a mobile IT Lab that will travel to designated locations across the State for skilling people. To encourage and motivate children to pursue skill-based education, the University will start a ‘Feeder School’ affiliated to CBSE to admit students from Class IX onwards.
He said that Government is currently providing skill-based training to unemployed youth through Industrial Training Institutes or ITIs under the “Craftsman Training Scheme”. As many as 8012 trainees have been placed through 470 campus placement events organized in Government ITIs during the year 2020-21. He said that 3 new Government Industrial Training Institutes will be started at Sikrona (Faridabad), Indri (Karnal) and Jeevan Nagar (Sirsa) in the 2021-22 session. Similarly, 5 Government Industrial Training Institutes will be selected in 2nd Phase of STRIVE Project.
Under Dual System of Training, he said that MoUs have been signed between 64 Government ITIs and 165 Industries for 244 trade units offering 5148 seats. Six DST Industry Partners were also felicitated as ‘Saksham Sathi’ on the World Youth Skill Day on 15.07.2020 for offering 100% placement to their DST trainees. The target for scale-up of DST is 350 units in the upcoming 2021-22 session.
He said that Haryana Skill Development Mission will strengthen the skilling eco-system of State under SANKALP Project (Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion). Youth of Haryana will be trained under the mission for employment.
He further said that under the Apprenticeship Act, 1961, a total of 1,08,679 apprentices have been appointed and 12,924 establishments registered since the launch of the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme in 2016. It is matter of pride that Haryana was ranked no. 1 in the country in terms of apprentices per lakh of State population every year since 2017-18. All Government Departments and SPSUs are being encouraged to engage apprentices upto 10% of their total manpower.