Skill development centre comes up in Udaipur to boost employment
Updated: Aug 18, 2014 02:33:24pm
Jaipur, Aug 18 (KNN) With the view of providing employment opportunities in the state, India’s first skill development centre was inaugurated in Udaipur.
The centre, which has been set up under the Livelihood Skill Project, was inaugurated by state Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday
While addressing at a function after inaugurating the centre, Raje said that the government will work to provide employment opportunities to all, reports media.
She further said that the state government will make youths self-reliant by providing them skill training.
She said the state government will open 200 such centres in all 33 districts of the state.
An agreement has been signed with 40 agencies to provide skill training to the youth, she added.
The Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation (RSLDC) has several skill development schemes like Employment Linked Skill Training Programmes; Aajivika Skill Development Programmes; Vocational Training Programmes; Regular Skill Training Programmes.
The state has an estimated labour force of 280 lakh which is growing at about 2.2 per cent per annum. Thus, there are about 6 lakh additional persons seeking work per annum. However, the growth rate of employment, which is 1.1 per cent pa, has not kept pace with the rate of increase in population. This has led to riding levels of unemployment. Further, there are about 200 lakh “working poor”, who are employed at a low wage rate or earn inadequately from self-employment, according to RSLDC. (KNN/SD)
The centre, which has been set up under the Livelihood Skill Project, was inaugurated by state Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday
While addressing at a function after inaugurating the centre, Raje said that the government will work to provide employment opportunities to all, reports media.
She further said that the state government will make youths self-reliant by providing them skill training.
She said the state government will open 200 such centres in all 33 districts of the state.
An agreement has been signed with 40 agencies to provide skill training to the youth, she added.
The Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation (RSLDC) has several skill development schemes like Employment Linked Skill Training Programmes; Aajivika Skill Development Programmes; Vocational Training Programmes; Regular Skill Training Programmes.
The state has an estimated labour force of 280 lakh which is growing at about 2.2 per cent per annum. Thus, there are about 6 lakh additional persons seeking work per annum. However, the growth rate of employment, which is 1.1 per cent pa, has not kept pace with the rate of increase in population. This has led to riding levels of unemployment. Further, there are about 200 lakh “working poor”, who are employed at a low wage rate or earn inadequately from self-employment, according to RSLDC. (KNN/SD)
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