150 Vocational Training Centres to hone skills of youth

Visakhapatnam: With the successful results and tremendous welcome from the rural youth, one of the world’s best service oriented house, Sri Satya Sai Seva Organisation (SSSSO) has decided to establish 150 Rural Vocational Training Centres (RVTC) to provide employment to locals.

Sri Satya Sai Rural Vocational training centres has so far successfully trained several batches of village youth in the existing centres of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States. Several youth have received a skill-based training in domestic electrical wiring, plumbing, industrial and agriculture motors, pumpsets repair, AC repair, tailoring and mobile phone servicing.

The youth who have been provided with complete set of tool kits have started their livelihood operations in their respective locations serving in several villages of both Telugu states.

"Growing unemployment in rural India is a major area of concern. The rural unemployment is of different types. In villages under employed, disguised unemployed, educated unemployed, skilled unemployed and unskilled unemployed at large numbers looking at the sky for a helping hand. As employment opportunities in villages have not been properly exploited, there is a migration of labour from villages to nearby cities and towns leaving the villages for old, sick and idlers. SSSRVTC has taken up an attempt to plug the loopholes in employment care. The main objectives are to impart such skills to youth which will provide employment to them within the village, to prevent migration of labour from village to town, to inculcate ethics and values in youth and to help trained youth to set up small scale units at their villages, enabling them acquire economic independence and to check the migrations,” said president, All India SSSSO, Nimish Pandya.

The SSSSO established 35 RVTCs in Andhra Pradesh and 15 in Telangana State and trained 11,554 youth so far. Over 95 per cent of the trained youth have established their own servicing centres and some trained persons achieved jobs at locally.

“The employment generation in rural India has become a big challenge. With directions and blessings of Sri Satya Sai Baba, the SSSSO has decided to open 150 more RVTCs across the country to ensure employment at their own areas. It is not just providing employment, with this the migrations from rural to urban will be arrested and the rural India will be strengthened,” Nimish Pandya opined.