(News 18)
National Skill Development Mission aims at training over 40 crore people in the country in a wide range of skills by 2022, Union Petroleum and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Sunday. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015, the Mission is training people in different skills ranging from industrial welding, industrial electrician to computer data application course, he said at the second foundation day function of the Oil Ministrys Skill Development Institute (SDI) here.
With the SDI, Bhubaneswar is doing exceptionally well, Ministry of Petroleum has taken an initiative of setting up several SDIs in different parts of the country – Vizag, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Guwahati and Raebareli, Pradhan said.He said SDI has acquired 46.172 acres of the 60 acres allotted by the state government at Jatni and is inching towards a mega Model Skill Academy of International Standards to be able to provide skill training to around 50000 youths over the next 10 years in various regular trades related to Hydrocarbons & local industries.
