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The unemployment successful the engineering assemblage is expanding successful the State owed to deficiency of indispensable skills and different reasons and this year, astir 48,000 engineering graduates person registered nether the Yuva Nidhi scheme.
Of the full 3.79 lakh registered till day nether the scheme, arsenic galore arsenic 2.98 lakh were eligible for fiscal benefits. Of these, determination are a full of 43,529 engineering graduates, 374 engineering postgraduates, and 4,250 diploma-engineering candidates.
Minister for Medical Education, Skill Development and Livelihood Sharan Prakash Patil, sharing the details connected Thursday, said the fig of non-engineering graduates enrolled nether the strategy see Arts, Science, Commerce, Management graduates- 3,00,214 - and non-engineering postgraduates registered were 27,843.
“Out of astir 1 lakh engineering graduates who walk retired each year, lone astir 20 to 25,000 candidates get jobs. The expanding unemployment successful the engineering assemblage is simply a substance of concern. The authorities is providing accomplishment grooming to the candidates registered nether the Yuva Nidhi scheme. But retired of this, astir 90% of the candidates are not turning up for accomplishment training,” the Minister said.
Dr. Patil gave an unfastened connection to firm companies to commencement accomplishment grooming centers successful authorities and backstage engineering colleges. “Bajaj has started a accomplishment grooming centre astatine PES University and is already providing grooming to engineering graduates. TATA has taken steps to commencement a grooming halfway astatine R.V. Engineering college. If firm companies travel guardant to commencement grooming centers successful immoderate authorities and backstage colleges successful the State, indispensable infrastructure volition beryllium provided. In addition, if they supply grooming to the candidates selected by the government, the grooming expenses volition beryllium released to the companies arsenic soon arsenic they get jobs,” helium added.
The Minister said that the authorities is mounting up multi-level accomplishment grooming centres successful Kalaburagi, Talakal of Koppal district, and Mysuru to bid Yuva Nidhi beneficiaries. “Despite the authorities being acceptable to walk connected them, the candidates are not acceptable to be the training. We person tried to scope retired to them done messages and calls, but determination is nary response. There mightiness beryllium an sentiment that fiscal assistance volition beryllium stopped during training. However, we person clarified respective times that it volition not beryllium discontinued unless they get placed and for 2 years,” helium said.
According to data, ₹27 crore acceptable speech for the Yuva Nidhi grooming intent was not utilised successful 2025. The section has present decided to summation the people with the combined funds of 2025 and 2026.
