Centre planning to establish 10,000 ITIs and 1,000 Polytechnics across country



Centre planning to establish 10,000 ITIs across country

The Central government is planning to establish 10,000 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in rural areas across the country for imparting technical training to the rural youth.

Union minister of state for planning V Narayanasamy announced this on Monday while inaugurating the first national convention of rural institutes, organized by the National Council of Rural Institutes.

“We have opened the flood gates for foreign investment in the education sector. Our thrust is on expanding the educational infrastructure in the rural areas by opening more institutes and universities,” the minister said.

He said plans were afoot to set up one rural university in each backward and tribal clusters across the country. Besides, 25,000 schools would also be set up in rural areas under the Public-Private Partnership mode.

The ambitious Bharat Nirman programme launched by the government of India with an outlay of Rs1 lakh-crore has helped in containing migration of rural people to urban areas to a certain extent what with creation of better infrastructure facilities in villages, he added.

“With emphasis on rural education and health care apart from infrastructure development, people in rural areas could feel better off. We can stop migration through such efforts,” Narayanasamy pointed out. National Council of Rural Institutes chairman S V Prabhath, former director of IIT-Madras P V Indiresan and others were present.
Source: PTI


Centre approves setting up 1000 new polytechnics: Minister

A new scheme of setting up 1,000 polytechnics across the country has been approved by the Centre to create more job opportunities for youth and arrest migration of rural youth to urban areas in search of jobs, Union Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy said today.

Inaugurating the first National Convention of rural institutes organised by the National Council of Rural Institutes (NCRI), he said the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government was committed to provision of Urban facilities in Rural Areas (PURA) propagated by former President A P J Abdul Kalam.

''Skill training is needed for millions of youngsters. Older people also needs to be re-trained. The NCRI can play a lead role here,'' he observed.

The success stories of the Gandhi Gram Rural University in Tamil Nadu and Barefoot College built by Barefoot Architects in Tilonia, Rajasthan, amply manifested the Gandhian principles of higher learning and rural development, he pointed out.

He said under the National Mission on Education, internet connectivity would be provided to 20,000 colleges and 10,000 departments in universities at a cost of Rs 5,000 crore in the next three years. The Union Government also planned to set up 2.50 lakh common service centres across the country, he added.

He urged the NCRI to promote at least one rural university in each of the clusters of backward and interior rural and tribal areas of the country.

Noting that wherever local bodies were active and functioned well, the implementation of rural developmental programmes was much better, he stressed the need for developing skills of Panchayat Raj Institutions in designing, planning, monitoring and implementation of these programmes.

The UPA Government's agenda was to transform India into a ''superpower of peace and inclusive prosperity in 21st century.'' Referring to the Centre's decision to restructure the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana and convert it into a national Rural Livelihoods Mission, he said a multi-pronged strategy would be adopted for poverty reduction in a time-bound manner by providing sustainable livelihood through various means to rural people below poverty line.

Poorest of poor, hitherto uncovered by government schemes, would be provided identity cards by the Unique Identification Authority of India and made part of inclusive development, he added.
Source:UNI

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