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Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs George Kurian has said that the PM VIKAS programme is helping members of number communities go entrepreneurs and technically skilled professionals, portion stressing that the inaugural aims to physique a highly skilled and empowered society.
He was speaking astatine the National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT-C), which hosted the ceremonial signing of a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) connected Monday (May 18).
Mr. Kurian said galore women had successfully transitioned into entrepreneurship nether the PM VIKAS scheme, portion respective others had gained method qualifications. He added that the programme was not constricted to students oregon moving professionals, but intended to uplift number communities arsenic a whole.
Reflecting connected archetypal determination hurdles successful cutting-edge domains — specified arsenic the Internet of Things (IoT) people launched astatine IIIT Kottayam and spot plan astatine IIT Palakkad — the Minister challenged students of India’s elite method institutions to rethink their vocation trajectories.
Mr. Kurian powerfully appealed to the younker of India to pivot from seeking employment to creating it. He urged the nation’s younker to clasp the mentality of becoming occupation creators to stay competitory successful the modern world. The Minister encouraged students to usage disposable authorities backing to motorboat startups from their homes, experimentation with their ideas, and yet standard those ventures.
The lawsuit was organised by the institute’s Centre for Continuing Education and Skill Development (CCESD) astatine the NIT-C campus. The MoU was signed and exchanged by V.B. Sameer Kumar, Registrar of the Central University of Kerala, Sunil Jacob John, Registrar of NIT-C, and Shah Faiz Ahmed, Under Secretary successful the Ministry of Minority Affairs, successful the beingness of NIT-C Director Prasad Krishna and Central University of Kerala Vice-Chancellor (V-C) Siddu P. Algur.
Under the initiative, NIT-C has been allotted grooming for 1,100 candidates nether the non-traditional component. The courses see Marketing Manager (E-commerce), Process Instrument Technician (Oil and Gas), Supply Chain and Logistics Analyst, and Essentials of VLSI Design. Of the full allocation, 500 seats person been earmarked for the VLSI programme and 200 each for the different 3 courses.
The Central University of Kerala has been allotted 400 seats for grooming successful women’s enactment and entrepreneurship.
The PM VIKAS strategy is simply a flagship integrated effort by the Ministry of Minority Affairs designed to modernise the accepted livelihoods of number and marginalised communities portion equipping younker with 21st-century skills.
