ITI and ITC opened in every assembly segment: CM

Shimla, Aug 25 (UNI) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today announced that the state government would promote technical and vocational education in a big way to equip students with professional skills.

Addressing the inaugural session of newly opened Akal College of Engineering Technology of Kalgidhar Trust at Baru Saheb in Sirmaur district of the state here, he said that government had opened at least one ITI and ITC in every assembly segment of the state to provide rural youth vocational trainings at their doorsteps. He said that a number of private technical schools, colleges and cetnres of par excellence learning had also been opened in different parts of the State for dispersal of the vocational education.

Despite the state making a humble beginning at the time of its formation with meagre resources, the sustained efforts by the successive Congress governments in the state had made it a role-model in the entire country, he added.

UNI