Asserting that Ramban is known as an organic district, Deputy Commissioner Mussarat Islam today asked the District Skill Committee (DSC) to introduce the courses pertaining to service sector, food industry and processing sector including bread-making, bakery, cleanliness, grading and packaging of Anardana, Honey, Walnut, Rajmash, poultry and dairy farming.
The Deputy Commissioner said this while chairing a Special Meeting of the District Skill Committee to revisit the District Skill Development Plan, besides reviewing progress on implementation of the plan already approved for 2023-24.
Reviewing the activities approved and taken-up under the Skill Development Plan, the Deputy Commissioner directed the Heads of Polytechnic College, ITIs and all other institutions for providing skill as well as vocational training to the youth by organizing special short-term and crash courses which have potential to provide them job opportunities by using the resources and agricultural produce available in the district. The district administration will help them to provide forward linkage with the market, he added.
Directing the departments to guide their pass-out trainees for availing the benefits from different job oriented schemes of various sectors, the Deputy Commissioner directed the General Manager, DIC and officers of KVIB to sponsor loan cases of candidates trained under District Skill Development Plan. He said that to put special focus on the training of unemployed youth, especially girls, besides providing them handholding to set up their business units at local level.
The Deputy Commissioner directed Principal Polytechnic and Superintendent of ITIs to also organize training courses pertaining to ongoing national projects including Railways, NH-44 and Power Projects and its maintenance.
The Deputy Commissioner directed all the departments to organize awareness camps, besides launching an IEC campaign on social media to sensitize and encourage youth to avail benefits of recently launched Vishwakarma and other schemes of their respective sectors.
Among other, Chief Planning Officer, Dr. Kasturi Lal, Chief Education Officer, Dev Anand, Principal, Government Polytechnic College, Vivek Mahajan, Chief Horticulture Officer, Anil Gorka, Chief Agriculture Officer, Gopal Sharma, Superintendent ITI, Parvez Iqbal, District Sheep Husbandry Officer, Chief Animal Husbandry officer, Director, RSETI, besides other senior officers attended the meeting.