Rajasthan gets India's first skill development centre

Jaipur, Aug 17: With an aim to provide job-oriented training programmes to the state's unemployed youth, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje inaugurated the country's first skill development centre.

Speaking after inaugurating the centre, which has been set up under the 'Livelihood Skill Project', Raje urged the people of the state to fight casteism, regionalism and communalism which were obstructing the path of development.

"We will have to unite to fail such casteism, regionalism and communalism which are obstructing the development process, then only we will be able to move ahead on the path of development", she said yesterday.

Raje said visiting tourists to Rajasthan will see state's economic development and skill of our youth in the near future besides the splendid forts, palaces and the cultural heritage.

After Udaipur, the state government will open 200 such centres in all the 33 districts of the state, she said, adding that a MoU has been signed with 40 agencies which will provide skilled training to the youth.

PTI