New Delhi, JAN 30: In a bid to address the acute shortage of resource persons to impart skill development training to one crore youth every year, the Government would rope in ex-servicemen as trainers, Union Skill Development and Entrepreneurship minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy told media persons here Friday.
“I admit that there is huge shortage of resource persons or trainers to provide skill development training to people,” Rudy told reporters after a Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting here.
To address the shortage, his ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Defence Ministry, he said.
It envisions using the talents of 60,000 defence personnel retiring from their jobs annually and orienting them to become skill trainers.
We have to train the workforce of the country to make India the ‘Skills Capital’ of the world, said the minister.
Against the target of training one crore people that 24 central ministries had set for themselves, his ministry would account for training 14 lakh people annually, Rudy said.
Multi-skill development centres would come up in all districts of the country under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, the minister said.
Rudy said vocational education would be introduced at high school level.
The government is also planning to use the closed down engineering colleges as skill development training centres, he added.
