Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais appealed to corporates, educational institutions, industries and other agencies to support the state government in its effort to develop skills among youths.
According to a report of PTI, He was speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for a Maharashtra State Skill University building and an industrial training institute at Panvel in Navi Mumbai.
The Skill India Mission launched by the government aims to create a skilled workforce for employment. The mission aims to skill over 40 crore people and enhance their employability by training them in skills of their choice.
A skilled human resource is essential for inclusive growth but government agencies and systems alone cannot accomplish this task, the governor said.
He said the private sector, industry, corporates, NGOs, and educational institutions having experience in skill training will also have to partner in the process of skilling. The governor said the demand for products made up of bamboo, bamboo furniture, and honey, is increasing in the world.
There is a need to provide training to tribal people in marketing, branding and packaging of their products. Kaushal Vishwavidyalaya should also take initiative in this field. This will give them good income from forest produce, he said.
India was the skill capital of the world three centuries ago. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Skill India campaign on July 15, 2015, in which he pledged to make 400 million people from all over India skilled under this campaign, he added.
Today, the average age of people in India is 29 years. People from many countries of the world are getting older than our young population. The demographic dividend is definitely in our favour today.
Recently, in the Davos Global Investors Conference, Maharashtra Government signed MoUs with 19 companies for an investment of Rs 1.37 lakh crore. Under this, we will have to provide adequate skills to our youth so that most of the employment opportunities coming in the state are available to them, the governor said.