Bhopal, June 30 (KNN) Around 140 Tribal youth turned village engineers were conferred Skill Certificates at the closing ceremony of the project which took place at the Raj Bhawan in Bhopal today.

Under the Rural Tribal Technical Training project, the Ministry of Skill Development has trained the first batch of village engineers in Madhya Pradesh.

While addressing the gathering virtually, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Electronics and IT  said, “Prime Minister’s Atmanirbhar Bharat Sankalp starts with the empowerment of rural youth. The road to Atmanirbhar Bharat travels through Atmanirbhar Villages. Creating new opportunities of employment/self-employment and entrepreneurship locally.”

“The pilot programme offers us a launch pad for replicating its success in other districts across the Nation. It shall empower the tribal youth by making opportunities available - locally thereby reducing the pull and push for migration. It shall trigger economic activities at the local level in the Districts which is consistent with the new economic outlook of the Government which lays emphasis on Self Reliance,” he added.

The training was provided to the beneficiaries in 5 disciplines- electrical and solar energy, agricultural mechanization, e-governance, plumbing and masonry, two-wheeler repair and maintenance.

This initiative will help the youth to start their own business, thus generating more employment opportunities for other youth as well. The concept of Multi Skilling and turning unemployed youth into village engineers is the first of its kind and shall be replicated in other districts.

The Government is giving priority to skilling as an important aspect to provide more opportunities to rural youth to strengthen local village economies. A part of this push is creating district skilling plans for each of the 700 districts.  (KNN Bureau)