Chennai, Aug 30 (KNN) The Tamil Nadu Skill Corporation on Monday signed an Memorandum of Understanding with 47 firms to provide world-class course contents to the students to help them develop necessary job skills.

This agreement was signed under the state government’s skill development and employability facilitation scheme, ‘Naan Mudhalvan’.

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin during the MoU ceremony also launched a dedicated upskilling portal. He also inaugurated an exhibition of firms that offer training, skilling and courses on a range of fields and subjects.

The upskilling portal will have courses on new technologies like block chain, IT-skills and programming, banking and financial services etc. The new portal’s features include psychometric test, facilitation on free of cost skilling and low-fee skill upgradation modules on new technologies.

While addressing the event, Chief Minister Stalin said that the new portal provides facilitation to students to study subjects on emerging fields like robotics, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT). “In order to develop entrepreneurship and personality development skills, specific training modules are provided”, he said.

The Naan Mudhalvan scheme was launched on March 1 to help bring better employment opportunities to young people.  (KNN Bureau)