Skill development on Tech Education Minister's mind

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 17

Technical Education Minister of Punjab, Rana Gurjeet Singh today said the Punjab Government had signed an MoU with the Microsoft to impart technical training to 20,000 girls who have the educational background of Information Technology to impart international-level skills to them.

Addressing the youth here at the IK Gujral Punjab Technical University during the state-level facilitation ceremony of high-end job fair and self employment job mela, the minister said under the state CM, arrangements for provision of jobs to lakhs of youth is being ensured and banking on that, the department has now been focusing on the Artificial Intelligence as it would play a great role in the lives of people in the future, especially in the IT and agriculture sector.

He further said the sewer men of all Municipal Corporations would also be turned into skilled workforce and a course for the same would be started from December 20.

Besides this, training to 60 nurses would be provided in respiratory courses at AIMS Bathinda, as the lack of trained staff during Covid was felt at all levels. These nurses would further provide training to the nurses in government hospitals. The minister also said the armed forces training Institute such as Mai Bhagho Armed Forces Preparatory Institute, Mohali, and C Pyte institutes at Kapurthala have played a great role.

The minister also felicitated 270 youths who were selected during the mega job fair held in December first week, out of which 70 were facilitated for self employment and 200 for grabbing the job opportunities during the job fair.

Director Employment Generation MK Arvind Kumar welcomed the Cabinet minister. Terming the self-employment generation sector as a full of possibilities and opportunities, he said the Punjab Government also facilitated 2,000 candidates for self-employment generation sanctioned loan of Rs 48 crore by various banks.