Free skill courses for unemployed youth

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 26

A free skill development course was introduced at the Multi Skill Development Centre (MSDC) in Amritsar on Sunday.

The centre, set up by the Sun Foundation, in collaboration with the Punjab Skill Development Mission, is an initiative to train the youth in various courses in field sales executive, fitter-mechanical assembly, customer-care executive, data entry operator, home health aid, food & beverage steward.

The courses were formally inaugurated by Deputy CM OP Soni (in pic). “It was a good initiative to tackle unemployment among youth. The students would be trained under experts and after completion of the course, they would be awarded government certificates,” he said.

Philantropist Vikramjit Singh Sahney, Padma Shri, chairman, Sun Foundation, said the foundation had established MSDC with state-of-the-art new labs and infrastructure

“The centre will train more than 500 students to start with and will go up to 1,000 students per year. Apart from main skill courses, students will also be provided soft skill classes and computer classes. After completion of courses, students will get assistance in job placements also,” he said.

Apart from skilling, the foundation also provided massive Covid relief in last two years and donated 2,000 oxygen cylinders and concentrators, mobile testing clinics and life ambulances.