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The state government has set a target of providing apprenticeship to 1 lakh youths with diploma and degrees in engineering for the next financial year, said Gaurav Goyal, managing director of Rajasthan Skills & Livelihood Development Corporation (RSLDC), here on Tuesday.

He said that 14,000 apprentice seats in 988 establishments have been notified across the state and the target for the current financial year is to train 14,000 youths.

Speaking at CII-Rajasthan's event on skills and human resources, Goyal said the state government is planning to identify more than 200 new industries for providing training to diploma and degree engineers. 

For this, the government is looking to tie up with local industry associations. He said the quality of school education in rural areas needed to be considerably improved since even Class V students lacked the basic skills of language and arithmetic.

In its bid to improve the training pedagogy and provide state-of-art machinery available in the industry to the ITIs, the government has roped in private sector with an Institute Management Committee (IMC) mechanism. This has not only streamlined the processes and operations of the ITIs but also facilitated the students' exposure to industrial units.

Goyal said, 105 ITIs in the state are now having IMCs and each of them has been provided a funding of Rs 2 crore. Minister of state for skill, employment and entrepreneurship Surender Pal Singh said that the Prime Minister's three-pronged initiative of Skill India, Make In India and Digital India will transform the employment scene of the country for better. 

He said during that Resurgent Rajasthan, 11 MoUs were signed with leading companies to improve the skilling ecosystem in the state thereby enhancing employment opportunities for the unemployed youth.

Social justice and empowerment and minority affairs minister Arun Chaturvedi said it is unfortunate that even today a large number of educated young men and women are unemployable because of not having a particular set of skills. He urged the industry bodies to join hands with the government to set up skill development centres for training the large young workforce of the state and the country.

CII-Rajasthan has adopted 46 government ITIs in Rajasthan and is helping the IMC chairpersons to convert them into Centres of Excellence. Chairman of CII-Rajasthan Suresh K Poddar said the industry body has been working towards creation of a demand-responsive eco-system for skill development with a multi-pronged approach.