One lakh Indians to Japan for training |
Dharmendra Pradhan, India`s Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, said after a Cabinet meeting that Indian recruits will receive training in Japan for a period of three to five years. They will get accommodation and job opportunities in Japan. When they return from Japan with Japanese standards of skills, it will boost India`s national productivity. India will be made a gas-driven economy and will set up a gas exchange. Japan has pacts for gas with Qatar and India has pacts with Australia. There is a provision for swapping these gas contracts and save transport costs. So India can get gas from Qatar instead of Japan and they can source our quantum from Australia. The Union Cabinet also approved two new schemes Sankalp, and Strive, to boost skill development, with aid from World Bank at estimated cost of Rs 6,600 crore. This is in joint participation by the Centre, States and the private sector for structural reforms in short-term and long-term skilling programs, over three years. There was no institutional mechanism for training the trainers. This programme will give States funds to build this mechanism. Mr. Pradhan said India will create 66 India international skilling institutes to meet the PM`s aspiration of making India a global skill hub.
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