Thursday, February 27, 2014

Haryana to launch Monetary Reward Scheme for trainees

by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, FEB 27
With a view to skilling the youth and empowering girls and women, the Haryana Government has decided to launch Monetary Reward Scheme, namely 'STAR'. On completion of the minium of one-month training, every trainee will be rewarded Rs 7500 to Rs 15,000, depending on the discipline.
             Giving this information here today, the Education Minister, Mrs Geeta Bhukkal, said that the first phase of the centrally sponsored scheme would be implemented in the state from April 1, 2014 under which a minimum of one-month training would be imparted to the youth in various disciplines, including IT, retail,
 security, automotive and health care.
The scheme would be implemented post-school hours in schools and more courses and sectors would be covered in phase-2 of the scheme.
 Mrs Bhukkal said that training providers under the STAR Scheme had been allocated various trades to conduct training in schools. Any
approved training provider can approach the principal of school and present his credentials for conducting the training under the scheme.
 The approved training provider would train school teachers post-school hours under the supervision of the principal. While the equipment and
lab would be provided by the concerned school, the raw material for lab work and reading material would be provided by the training
 partner.
            The minister said that the scheme aimed at rewarding such trainees as undergo minimum one-month training and pass the assessment
conducted by the Sector Skill Council constituted by the NSDC.
      The trainee would be rewarded Rs 10,000 for passing the assessment for non-manufacturing course in IT and retail , Rs 15,000
would be given  for passing manufacturing course in automotive and plumbing and Rs 7500 will be given for passing construction work and agriculture course.
The reward money could be availed of by a trainee only once under the scheme. On successful completion of the training and
 assessment, each candidate would also be given a National Skill Certificate under STAR.
            Mrs Bhukkal said that all the 29 Pragati schools in the districts of Ambala, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Palwal, Rohtak,
 Yamunanagar, Jind, Panipat, Kurukshetra and Hisar skill training in retail would be provided. Similarly, skill training in security would
be provided in all the 23 ASTM schools in the districts of Ambala, Faridabad, Mewat, Jhajjar, Palwal, Rohtak, Yamunanagar, Panchkula,
 Karnal, Sirsa and Rewari.
Skill training in automobile would be provided in all the 16 EDU jobs schools in the districts of Ambala, Mahendergarh, Mewat, Jhajjar,
Bhiwani, Rohtak, Yamunanagar, Panchkula, Gurgaon, Sirsa, Kaithal, Hisar and Jind.
Apart from this, skill training in healthcare would be provided in 16 skill tree schools in the districts of Karnal, Rewari, Sonipat,
Panipat, Jind and Bhiwani and 16 Vidyanta Schools in the districts of Rewari, Sonipat, Bhiwani, Mahendergarh, Jind and Hisar and 17 Max
schools in the districts of Kaithal, Kurukshetra, Panchkula, Sirsa, Gurgaon and Fatehabad.
She said that skill training in IT would be provided in 18 NIIT Yuva Jyoti Schools in the districts of Ambala, Fatehabad, Hisar, Jind,
Kurukshetra and Sirsa, 19 Rooman Technologies Schools of district Bhiwani, Gurgaon, Mahendergarh, Rewari, Rohtak, and Jhajjar, 19 Laqsh
schools of district Faridabad, Mewat, Palwal and Jhajjar and 17 IL and FS schools of district Kaithal, Karnal, Panchkula, Panipat, Sonipat
and Yamunanagar.
            The STAR project aims at skilling 10 lakh Indian youths in the country. Haryana has already carved a niche for itself at the
 national level in implementation of the National Skills Qualifications Framework.
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