The government will soon be picking selective railway stations to organise a skill development programme at their facilities. Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who is the Minister of State for Skill Development, stated that the Indian Railways have great capacity to motivate skill development. He added that they have done partnerships and will be selecting few railway stations, and with the process in full swing, the skill development programme will start anytime soon. In few months, you will see many stations functioning with skill development programmes, he said.
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister has signed an MOU with the Indian Railways to give some space and manpower to put out skill development programmes all across the country.
On partnering with Indian Railways, Rajiv Pratap Rudy told that he noticed that railways have the largest and biggest infrastructure including around 60000 stations all over the country. This is the reason why they picked the railways to conduct the programme. The Indian Railways have infrastructure with water and sanitation amenities. They also have a dedicated electricity network and optical fibre network. Besides this, all the railway stations are situated in accessible areas where maximum population of the country resides.
Rudy also stated that, they also pass through areas which are usually not accessible. The stations pass through tons of villages, forests and other inaccessible areas. With signing the MOU, the National Skill Development Corporation can give them the perfect platform to help the unemployed rural youth in learning skills, which help in becoming economical and productive.
The Skill Development Ministry is giving their best to increase resources via multiple ways to raise money for this ambitious project of training around 50 crore people. There will be requirements for the 50 crore people in the programme and the other 10 crore, who will be a part of the workforce. Rudy stated that they are trying their best to tap all the sources they can like defence offset, CSR, government funds, private partnerships and so on to raise enough resources.
In this development, the government has put a target to skill 40.2 crore people by 2022 under a new National Policy for Skill Development. Looks like everyone is set to support this ambitious and helpful project