Kerala plans to be destination for skills training

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala is proposing a grand plan to not only skill its young people but also provide related know-how to other parts of the country.

This is being taken up as part of the Prime Minister’s initiative for imparting skills to 50 crore young people by 2022, State Labour Minister Shibu Baby John said.

SKILLING TARGET
A concept note prepared by the State labour department projects that, on a proportionate basis, Kerala will need to skill 1.35 crore youngsters by 2022.

This means that over the next nine-year period, the State would need to target on an average 15 lakh young people for skilling every year.

This represents an eight-fold increase in the numbers that the State is averaging concurrently, the note said.