Minister of State for Tourism and Information Technology and Biotechnology Priyank Kharge has said that fresh initiatives have been launched to provide skill-based training in electronics to school and college dropouts to improve their employability.
He told presspersons on Wednesday that it had been proposed to train around 15,000 dropouts and 5,000 of them would be from the Hyderabad Karnataka region. The State government had asked the Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development Board to share half of the cost.
Employment
Mr. Kharge said that the government had proposed to invite electronics, semiconductor, drugs and manufacturing industries to set up units in Kalaburagi district to provide skill and semi-skill based employment to unemployed youth here.
He said that the government was also ready to set up a startup cell incubation centre at the IT park in Kalaburagi to enable entrepreneurs to register themselves with their projects.
The centre would help them get patents for their products, set up testing facilities and explore marketing avenues.
Mr. Kharge said that the State government had allocated Rs. 400 crore for setting up startup incubation centres. Under the project, each proposal could be provided assistance up to a maximum of Rs. 50 lakh. In another programme titled ‘Idea to proof of concept’, the government would extend assistance up to Rs. 10 crore.
Under the Rs. 15 crore available under the Grant Challenge Fund, the government would extend assistance to projects dealing with governance and social aspects. The government was empowered to provide assistance up to Rs. 1 crore with equity from the entrepreneurs.
Incubation centre
To a question, Mr. Kharge said that Rs. 5 crore had been sanctioned to Veterinary College in Bidar for setting up an incubation centre on ‘vivarirum’ and the University of Agriculture Sciences in Raichur had been asked to submit a proposal for setting up an agri-tech and bio-tech incubation centre.
The government would extend an assistance of Rs. 9 lakh per college for its ‘New Age Incubation Network’ in their colleges to support innovation among students in rural areas.
New schemes
Around 15,000 dropouts will be trained
5,000 of them will be from Hyderabad Karnataka
Govt. plans to set up startup incubation cell at IT park in Kalaburagi
