Tripura govt to introduce vocational courses in 55 schools to make students independent

In order to upskill the students and make them self-sufficiency, the Tripura government announced to introduce few vocational courses on Agriculture, Retail Management, Information Technology & Electronics and Hardware in 55 schools of the state from the next academic session.

In order to upskill the students and make them self-sufficiency, the Tripura government announced to introduce few vocational courses on Agriculture, Retail Management, Information Technology & Electronics and Hardware in 55 schools of the state from the next academic session. According to the reports, Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said, "We have decided to start vocational courses in retail management, Information Technology, Electronics and Hardware and Agriculture in 55 schools. The tender process will start soon. It is the need of the hour to ensure no one remains jobless after pass-out.” 

Initially, the state government approached the Union Ministry of Human Resources and Development ( MHRD) with a proposal of introducing these vocational courses in 101 schools in the current 2020-21 academic year. However, they got approval for 55 schools only.

Talking about the proposal, Mr Nath said that they sent a proposal to MHRD to start vocational courses in 50 schools and 80 schools in the last two academic years i.e, in 2018-19 and 2019-20. But they got approval for 24 and 56 schools in these years respectively. The project will be implemented by the agencies engaged through tenders by recruiting Vocational Training Providers ( VTPs) having a master's degree as a required qualification. The minister further added, "The students of Class 9 and 10 would be imparted these courses. After completion of these two years of vocational courses, the implementing agency will conduct job fairs."

After completion of the vocational courses, the students would get certificates from the central and state governments, he further added.

While pursuing these courses, the students would be trained for field technicians for electronics and hardware programmes, domestic data entry providers, livestock health control executives in agriculture programmes, animal health workers including store operation assistants in the retail management programmes.

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