Hyderabad: With the Centre deciding to award Class XII equivalency certificates to ITI graduates and hold grand graduation ceremonies for them from this year, Prime Minister Modi’s “Make in India” initiative will soon get an ITI push.
Union skill development minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy who inaugurated, the K. Kavitha headed Telangana Jagruthi's skill development centre here on Friday, said these steps were aimed at removing the mental blocks that people have towards ITI graduates.
Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan expressed serious concern over the sorry state of affairs in the education sector and rapid commercialisation of education. “Saraswati (education) has become Lakshmi (money) in this country,” he said, urging immediate steps for de-commercialisation of education.
Mr Rudy said skill development was grossly neglected thus far, and the country was now paying a price in the form of large-scale unemployment as youths got degrees but lacked employable skills.
“The Centre will spend Rs 32,000 crore on skill development in the next three years,” Mr Rudy said. Ms Kavitha said, “We have trained 3,353 youths in various industry-related skill development programmes since August 2015. We provided them skills along with job opportunities.”
