Students, who appeared in their class-X and Class-XII and are not willing to pursue further education will get professional training in the capital city Delhi. The city government has decided to provide training to 30000 such students in 13 different trades based on the requirement of such skilled manpower in the market. 

The training will be provided under Prime Minister’s Skill Development Mission Programme, Delhi’s Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said today in an interaction with media at Delhi Secretariat. All arrangements have been made to impart training to around 30,000 students who would be able to find a respectable employment, he said adding that the classes in afternoon would be held in all single shift government schools in Delhi.  This would provide a unique opportunity to the students for enhancing their employability if they do not wish to pursue higher studies.  The Directorate of Education has lined up all competent trainers for this purpose. 

 A part of trainers would, of course, be arranged from outside faculty.  The Modular Employable Skills (MES) short-term courses are demand driven as determined in consultation with the industry.  The objective is to improve their employability by optimally utilizing the infrastructure available in government schools.  The courses are optional for the students.  The duration for these trades varies from 80 to 270 hours depending on the nature of the trade.  The Directorate of Education is expecting that around 30,000 students would enroll and avail the benefit of these courses. 

The trades being offered are automobile repair, beauty culture & hair dressing, electrical, electronics, fashion designing and garment making, Indian foods and snacks, hospitality, information and communication technology, refrigeration and air-conditioning, travel & tourism, retail sector, security and media.

Education Minister stated that training courses are being offered after successful trial under which around 4000 students in the schools have been imparted training.  All arrangements have been ensured based on the feedback received from these trial courses however the courses would be further fine tuned when they are introduced in government schools of Directorate of Education in mid July, 2009. 

Singh expressed confidence that this scheme would prove to be beneficial to large number of students belonging to weaker and other middle-income families.  The trained professional would be able to serve the needs of society at large.  The government has taken a step which would go a long way in making those students professionally qualified and competent enough to earn their earning in a respectable manner who are not in a position to pursue further study. Singh added that the training by qualified trainers would make trainees an asset in their self making them a useful component of the society