The final meeting of the sub-group of chief ministers on skill development was held at NITI Aayog in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The deliberations focused on empowering and strengthening the state skill development missions to address the challenge of skill development at the state-level in a decentralised manner so as to improve the outreach of skill development.
Emphasis was also laid on increasing participation of women and other socio economic groups. It was suggested that appropriate credit and market linkages be provided for entrepreneurial development which can act as force multiplier for employment generation.
The meeting was presided by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The chief ministers of Assam, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Tripura and Goa attended the meeting. Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry were represented by their senior officers. The sub-group focused on need for overcoming the shortage of trainers by involving the industry and national-level institutions such as IIT, IIM and universities.
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