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Chennai, July 7

The Government will declare 500 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) as Centres of Excellence to impart vocational training in specialised areas, said Mr Chandra Sekhar Sahu, Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment. To enable skills upgradation, mainly in rural areas, job-oriented courses will be introduced in ITIs. All ITIs in the country will be equipped with modern infrastructure, he said. About 10 lakh people will be trained over the next five years through such centres.

Addressing the 86th annual general meeting of the Employers' Federation of Southern India, he said a major challenge was in employment generation in rural areas. He mentioned that there were 3.98 crore registered jobseekers in the employment exchanges as on August 31, 2005. Stressing on the need for private-public partnership in the area of skills upgradation, he said that the Government offered sops and tax exemptions for entrepreneurs to encourage setting up industries and hiring local talent.

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