Ranchi, May 26 (KNN) A Digital Skills University will be set up in Jharkhand soon where job-oriented education will be provided to the less educated youth, announced Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday.

He said the university would come up at cost of about Rs 300- 400 crore, reported TOI.

CM Soren was addressing the students at the 2nd Convocation of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Ranchi.

He informed that the state government recently decided to open a digital skills university in a bid to provide technical education to the less educated youth so that they could be provided jobs.

Marking the significance to technology, he said there has been expansion in the field of education in which institutes like IIT-ISM, BIT Mesra, IIM, XLRI and NIT were opened.

In the same way, IIIT was also opened in Ranchi, he said.

CM further said that youth from Jharkhand have created their own niche in the field of education in the country and abroad.   (KNN Bureau)