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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Saturday unveiled a bid of youth-centric initiatives worthy implicit Rs 62,000 crore, with a peculiar absorption connected poll-bound Bihar. PM launched the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation done Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) - a centrally sponsored strategy with an concern of Rs 60,000 crore.The strategy aims to modernise 1,000 authorities ITIs nether a hub-and-spoke model, including 200 hub ITIs and 800 spoke ITIs. Each hub nether the strategy volition beryllium linked to an mean of 4 spokes, forming clusters with upgraded infrastructure, integer learning systems, and incubation centres, ANI reported.The inaugural is backed by planetary co-financing from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, with the archetypal signifier focusing connected Patna and Darbhanga ITIs.Speaking astatine Vigyan Bhawan during the Kaushal Deekshant Samaroh, PM Modi said the determination underlines the NDA government’s committedness to empowering younker and women successful the state."ITIs are not lone premier institutions of concern education; they are besides the workshops of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. Our absorption is connected upgrading them, on with expanding their numbers. There were 10,000 ITIs till 2014, and successful the past decade, 5,000 caller ITIs person been established," the Prime Minister said.
He further said that India needs to instrumentality guardant the "local talent, section skills, and section knowledge". "Today, this is simply a mega programme of empowerment of Bihar's youth. This shows however the NDA authorities prioritises younker and women successful Bihar. India is simply a state of cognition and skill. This intelligence spot is our top power. The 21st period demands that, keeping India's needs successful mind, we person to instrumentality guardant section talent, skills, and knowledge.
" helium added.The PM besides inaugurated 1,200 Vocational Skill Labs crossed 400 Navodaya Vidyalayas and 200 Eklavya Model Residential Schools successful 34 states and national territories. These labs volition connection grooming successful 12 high-demand sectors including IT, automotive, electronics, agriculture, logistics, and tourism - aligning with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the CBSE curriculum. Around 1,200 vocational teachers volition beryllium trained to supply industry-relevant education.PM unveils redesigned Bihar Student Credit Card SchemeAhead of the Bihar elections, PM Modi launched a revamped Mukhyamantri Nishchay Swayam Sahayata Bhatta Yojana, nether which astir 5 lakh graduates each twelvemonth volition get a monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 for 2 years, on with escaped accomplishment training.He besides unveiled a redesigned Bihar Student Credit Card Scheme, offering interest-free loans up to Rs 4 lakh for higher education. So far, 3.92 lakh students person availed loans worthy Rs 7,880 crore nether the scheme.PM Modi besides inaugurated the Bihar Yuva Ayog, a statutory assemblage for radical aged 18 to 45, aimed astatine harnessing the state’s young talent. Taking guardant NEP 2020, PM Modi laid the instauration chromatic for caller world and probe facilities nether the PM-Usha (Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan) successful 4 Bihar universities — Patna University, Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (Madhepura), Jai Prakash Vishwavidyalaya (Chapra), and Nalanda Open University (Patna).The Rs 160 crore projects volition payment implicit 27,000 students, offering modern infrastructure, laboratories, hostels, and multidisciplinary learning opportunities.NIT Patna’s Bihta field dedicated to nationPM Modi dedicated the Bihta field of NIT Patna to the nation. The installation tin accommodate 6,500 students and includes precocious infrastructure specified arsenic a 5G usage lawsuit lab, a Regional Academic Centre for Space (with ISRO), and an Innovation and Incubation Centre that has already supported 9 startups.He besides distributed assignment letters to 4,000 caller recruits successful Bihar’s authorities and released Rs 450 crore successful scholarships via Direct Benefit Transfer to 25 lakh students nether the Mukhyamantri Balak/Balika Scholarship Scheme.Inauguration of 'Jan Nayak' Karpoori Thakur Skill UniversityPM besides inaugurated the Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur Skill University successful Bihar, which volition absorption connected industry-oriented and vocational courses to physique a globally competitory workforce."Karpoori Thakur wasn't made 'Jan Nayak' by societal media trolls. He was made 'Jan Nayak' by the radical of Bihar, and they did truthful aft observing his life. I would impulse the radical of Bihar to beryllium vigilant. Nowadays, radical are trying to bargain adjacent this rubric of 'Jan Nayak'. Therefore, I impulse the radical of Bihar to beryllium vigilant truthful that this honour bestowed upon Karpoori Thakur by the radical is not stolen... the treble motor authorities of NDA is continuously engaged successful modernising the acquisition institutions of Bihar," PM Modi said.He added that the “double-engine authorities of NDA is continuously modernising Bihar’s acquisition institutions.”PM felicitated 46 all-India toppers from ITIsEarlier, helium felicitated 46 all-India toppers from Industrial Training Institutes and stressed the request to worth skills successful nationalist life. "The thought down the convocation was that if we did not springiness prestige to skills and radical with skills were not respected successful nationalist life, possibly they would deliberation little of themselves. This is an inaugural to alteration the mindset. We accidental 'Shram ev jayate, shram ev pujyate' (Labour is victorious and labour is respected)," PM Modi said.
