Naini bats for skills training

​Hyderabad: Home Minister Naini Narsimha Reddy has stressed the need for offering skills training to Telangana youth to get foreign jobs.

Participating in a crucial meeting to prepare a draft policy on ‘Skills Development and Skills Mission’ conducted by the State Planning Department that discussed modalities for the same, the Home Minister asked the officials to identify the sectors that need manpower abroad and offer necessary training to the youth to get those jobs.

Welcoming the plan of new draft policy on skills development, the Home Minister said it would help youth get jobs and eliminate poverty in the State.

“This is the time for us to encourage youth to get complete knowledge and skill to suit to the changing needs of companies diversified into various sectors,” the Minister said.

The new policy would bring good name to the State, he said and instructed the officials to give priority to skills development at school level. The State government would try to get funds from the Centre to boost skills development, he averred.

Planning Board Vice-President S Niranjan Reddy said that the new State was going to come up with first of its kind draft policy on skills development.

He hoped that the policy would bring name to the State across India and would help provide more employment opportunities. As part of Corporate Social Responsibility, industries and corporate companies were spending huge money and proper use of the same would reap in benefits, he said.

Niranjan Reddy said standards should be maintained at training level by efficient teachers and certificates be given through recognised institutions.

“Respect to work, focus on work culture and efforts to increase personal skills are priority areas that need focus. The government has to see that those who can work should get a chance to work and earn their livelihood.

An indepth study is needed on skill development draft policy,” he added. Advisor to government Papa Rao said that the planning wing as nodal agency, would hold a meeting with CII on the draft policy.

Principal Secretary MG Gopal who was also present, said skill development training would be conducted on a pilot basis and expand it later. BP Acharya said Telangana State had 2.2 crore people in the age group of 15 to 59 years and 1.51 crore youth were seeking work and readily available.

Some 50.9 lakh manpower was needed in the State from 2012 to 2022 and skill development training policy will help rapid industrial growth and increase in productivity, he added.