Skill Development Ministry officials to visit "aspirational districts" from Oct 2

"The visit of officers of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will begin with a meeting with Districts Collector/CEO-Zila Parishad and other state-level officers implementing the programmes.

Senior officers from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will visit 'Aspirational Districts' between October 2 and January 26, 2019, in a bid to understand and address the challenges faced by them in implementing skill programmes, the government said Thursday.

The Centre had launched the Aspirational Districts Programme to effectively transform the identified districts through the convergence of Central and state schemes, collaborations among officers and creating competition among districts.

"The visit of officers of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will begin with a meeting with Districts Collector/CEO-Zila Parishad and other state-level officers implementing the programmes.

"The team will also have interactions with Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras, training providers, ITIs, Polytechnics, and JSS administrations," an official statement said.

The team would also have the conversation with students and industry.

This will enable a stock-taking of the available skill ecosystem vis-a-vis the available data and provide the good understanding of challenges to be addressed at the district level to make youth employable.