The Union Minister for Mines and Steel holding a meeting with the Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Parliamentary Affairs

The end result of all skilling efforts should be to provide employment to the skilled man power he added.

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill development and Entrepreneurship, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, highlighted the areas of cooperation between the Ministries viz. providing space for training, identifying industry requirements, utilisation of CSR funds, contribution to National Skill Development Fund, providing trainers and schools, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), ITI adoption and apprenticeships.

Union Minister of State for Steel and Mines Vishnu Deo Sai, Secretary Steel, Rakesh Singh, Secretary Mines, Dr. Anup K. Pujari, Secretary Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Sunil Arora and other senior officers from the Ministries and PSUs were present on the occasion.

Different issues that came up for discussion included creation of institutes of excellence, project to conduct RPL for existing workforce with focus on service providers, alignment of training infrastructure of PSU/industry with National Occupational Standards (NOS) and Qualification Packs (QP), collaboration with existing training institutes, Utilising the existing training providers, and identification of junked equipment lying at various facilities and refurbishing it for civilian training.

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