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Agribusiness, Power, Mining Hold Big Potential
Carrying Out Skill Development
on War-Footing to Create Jobs
“Skill Development” has been identified as one of the most
important national missions, to make the millions of young
people across the country to be gainfully employable. Towards
achieving this goal, the National Council for Skill
Development, chaired by the Prime Minister himself, is striving
to meet a target of creating 500 million certified and skilled
technicians by 2022. A National Skill Development
Corporation has also been created for carrying out this mission
in the private sector. In tune with the national policy and its zeal
to implement it at the state level, Chhattisgarh created the
Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Mission (CSSDM) under
the chairmanship of the Chief Minister.
The CSSDM's action plan has identified the following areas in
this regard to create 12.5 million jobs by 2022.
• Agriculture and Food Processing
• Medicinal extracts from forest-based herbal plants
• Forest and forestproduce based industries
• Village industries
In addition, CSSDM has also identified the key growth sectors in
the State that would need skilled technicians on a large scale.
These include:
• Power
• Steel/Cement
• Services Sector
• Mining/Minerals
• Construction/Infrsastructure
• Education
Educated Manpower
There are good health and education
facilities in the state. Bhilai is a major centre of
education. Apollo hospital - Bilaspur, Fortis
Health Centre - Raipur and J.N.Medical
Institute - Bhilai (of SAIL) are some of the
major hospitals in the state. With a number of
Engineering Colleges, Polytechnics and ITIs,
trained engineers and technicians are
available to the industries.
Chhattisgarh is developing its New Capital
Naya Raipur close to Raipur city with state-ofthe-art
infrastructure like four lane roads with
dedicated bus lanes, sports complexes,
convention centre, gold course and a
logistics hub.
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