Srinagar, July 1 (KNN) A capacity building programme for all the principals and superintendents of polytechnics and ITIs will be held from next week, said Principal Secretary, Skill Development Department (SDD), Asgar Hassan Samoon on Thursday.

The training programme will focus on communication technology, entrepreneurship, lab designing, Mechanotrics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 

The training will help principals and superintendents to learn about the emerging technologies so that they can better implement them at their respective institutions.

 Samoon in a meeting held at the IIM-Jammu’s off-campus, reviewed the progress on the collaboration between SDD and IIM Jammu for the transformation of skill development institutions across J&K.

The meeting was held in the backdrop of the recent signing of an agreement between the Jammu and Kashmir Skill Development Department and the Indian Institute of Management, Jammu to embark on a journey of mentor-mentee relationship for a skill revolution across J&K.

The meeting was attended by the Director IIM, Jammu, Prof. B.S Sahay, Director SDD J&K, Sudershan Kumar, representative of IIM Jammu off-campus Srinagar, Principals and Superintendents of all the Polytechnic Colleges and ITIs of Jammu and Kashmir.  (KNN Bureau)