Highlighting the long and short term skilling programs the department is running in the state, Mayank Gangwar, Deputy Director Vocational Education & Skill Development, Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh said, “We provide long term skilling through Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), which are more than 3300, including government and private ITIs. We have more than 5 lakh seats in different sectors like manufacturing services, telemedicine, paramedics etc.”
Gangwar said that the youth number is too high in UP. “So, if we train and use them well, we will get the benefit from those people and that will be our main success,” he added.
Emphasising the importance of skilling, he said the digital connect will provide better direction to skill development programs. “The basic skills which we have to provide to our youth should come through technology and the advanced skills should come through classroom study or any other mode,” he said. “The whole aim is to provide better education along with proper skills, so that youths will get the job and will be able to contribute to the economy and that will be the best thing for our state as well as for our country,” he added.
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“We have to re-skill and upskill our existing workforce continuously, because the world is continuously changing and so is technology,” he concluded.
