The Wayanad district administration is gearing up to organise a skill-development programme for as many as 1,23,741 unemployed youths in the district under the Transformation of Aspirational District project of the Central government.
The project envisages to ensure job opportunities for unemployed educated youths by imparting employability skills in various sectors, including agriculture, construction, soft skills, and service sectors in a phased manner, District collector A.R. Ajayakumar told The Hindu .
It was planning to train as many as 20,000 youths in farming-related sectors; 40,000 in the service sector; 23,000 in soft skills; and 40,000 in construction sectors in four years, Mr. Ajayakumar said.
“We give preference to short-term training programmes to ensure job opportunities for the youth,” he said.
Training partners
Institutions such as Kerala Academy for Skills Excellence (KASE); Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society(ULCCS); Nettur Technical Training Foundation, Thalassery; and Bharat Petroleum Corporation had offered their willingness, apart from the technical institutes in the district, to train the youth, he said.
The training programme will begin by the middle of February. Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hegde will hold a videoconferencing on the project on Wednesday.
Those technical institutes wishing to participate in the programme should submit a proposal to the District Planning Office before Monday, he added.
The Niti Aayog has selected as many as 117 backward districts in the country for executing the project and Wayanad is the lone district from the State.
