Skill Development Corporation inks MoUs with 19 firms

Amaravati: AP State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) MD and CEO Sambasiva Rao said that the APSSDC made several key contracts at the joint convention held by the State government and Confederation of Indian industries (CII) in Visakhapatnam. 

In a press release on Monday, Sambasiva Rao said the APSSDC entered MoUs with representatives of 19 organisations from different sectors in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Minister for Law and Justice Kollu Ravindra to provide better training to youth.

In addition, he said, plans have been prepared to provide employment opportunities, including training from the next year. Sambasiva Rao also said that Chief Minister Chandrababu hailed the training programmes of the APSSDC.

Fields in which training will be available for youth are logistics, life sciences, security, retail, health care, IT and ITeS, electronics, telecom, fisheries, capacity building, pharma, biotechnology, greens jobs, hospitality, apparels, textiles, architecture, agriculture, aviation, media and entertainment sectors.  

Sambasiva Rao said employment opportunities would be doubled by 2020. He also said that people who were specialists in IT were doing certification courses with well-known institutions like Google and Amazon.