{"id":20030,"date":"2018-01-27T12:48:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T12:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=20030"},"modified":"2018-01-27T12:48:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T12:48:59","slug":"punjab-to-run-self-employment-training-courses-for-agriculture-allied-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/punjab-to-run-self-employment-training-courses-for-agriculture-allied-services\/","title":{"rendered":"PUNJAB TO RUN SELF-EMPLOYMENT TRAINING COURSES FOR AGRICULTURE & ALLIED SERVICES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skill University courses to be based on Embedded Apprenticeship Proggramme<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chandigarh,
\nThe Punjab Government to run self-employment training courses for Agriculture & Allied Services under skill development mission.<\/p>\n

The secretary, union ministry of skill development & entrepreneurship has in principle given approval for running these courses. The Punjab Skill Development<\/p>\n

mission to introduce courses of Agriculture & Allied Services to provide skill training to the farmers and others to bring diversification, doubling the income of<\/p>\n

farmers, arrest of depleting water tables and distress in farmers.<\/p>\n

A high-level meeting to discuss the various issues related to skill development and vocational training programmes was held here today at Punjab Bhawan. Mr.<\/p>\n

Charanjit Singh Channi Minister for Technical Education & Industrial Training chaired the meeting while Dr. KP Krishnan secretary Ministry of skill Development &<\/p>\n

Entrepreneurship, GoI, Mr. Karan Avtar Singh Chief Secretary, Mr. MP Singh Additional Chief Secretary, Mr. Tejvir Singh Principle Secretary to CM and other<\/p>\n

senior officers of the state and union government were also present.<\/p>\n

Disclosing about the decisions taken during the meeting the Technical Education Minister Mr. Charanjit Singh Channi said that the Punjab Agriculture University<\/p>\n

and the Guru Angad Dev Vetnary University would run the skill development courses for the Agriculture and Allied services. He said that these courses would be<\/p>\n

run under the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) programme under Pardhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna scheme. ‘A separate proposal to be sent by the<\/p>\n

PSDM for the approval of these courses to the Union Ministry of skill Development & Entrepreneurship, added Channi.<\/p>\n

The Minister said that the secretary ministry of MSDE in principle also gave approval to set up Indian Institute of Skills in the Punjab Skill University, which is to<\/p>\n

be set up at Sri Chamkaur Sahib. He said that this centre would be part of the university and work as the certifying authority for the Skill Centres running in the<\/p>\n

state. He further said that the top Industrial Units would set up Centre of excellence in the campus of the university to provide job oriented education and training<\/p>\n

to the youth of the state. The minister also said that the students of government polytechnic colleges and Industrial training Institutes would also be given<\/p>\n

training in these centres.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, it was also discussed that the courses, which would be run in the Skill Universities, would be based on the Embedded Apprenticeship<\/p>\n

Proggramme. The Secretary GOI informed that proposal regarding this has been sent for the approval of union cabinet. He said that the as per the proposal the<\/p>\n

courses would be focused on 70% practical training and 30% academics. He further said the practical training would be provided not only in the labs but also in<\/p>\n

the Industry.<\/p>\n

The Technical Education Minister Mr. Channi stressed on the need carrier counseling programme in the state and the NSDC agreed to this and said that the the<\/p>\n

officials said that the NSDC would set up counseling centre in the state. This centre would train the trainers from across the state and these trained counselors<\/p>\n

would provide carrier counseling in all the schools and other institutes of the state.<\/p>\n

The Technical Education Minister said that the Union ministry has also approved grant for the Skills Competition to be held in the state before the India Skills<\/p>\n

competition and after this world skills competition would be held at Kazan Russia in 2019. The minister also said that the union ministry has also approved the<\/p>\n

joint branding and reshuffling of courses as per the need of the Industry.<\/p>\n

Others prominent present in the meeting included Mr. Sukhwinder Singh GM PSDM, Mr. DPS Kharbanda Director Industries, Mr. Ajoy Sharma Secretary Local<\/p>\n

Government and Ms Vaishali Project co-rdinator PSDM, MR. Jaiwant Singh Sr. Head NSDC, Mr. PN Yadhav Director DGT, MSDE, Ms Swati Sethi Jt. Director<\/p>\n

DGT and other officers of the state & union government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skill University courses to be based on Embedded Apprenticeship Proggramme Chandigarh, The Punjab Government to run self-employment training courses for Agriculture & Allied Services under skill development mission. The secretary, union ministry of skill development & entrepreneurship has in principle given approval for running these courses. The Punjab Skill Development mission to introduce courses of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20032,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20030\/revisions\/20032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}