IIT Palakkad to train 2 million youth in cyber-physical systems by 2030

The Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF) launched ‘i-Skill’ initiative with an aim to empower the country’s youth with adequate skills to enable their employment in technological sectors. 

The foundation aims at training two million youth under the initiative by 2030. i-Skill is an umbrella skill development initiative by IPTIF covering a series of programmes. The main aim is to empower the youth of the country with adequate skills to enable their employment in technological sectors, to improve productivity and capacity building to prepare them for the evolving cyber-physical systems technologies.  

Albert Sunny, Director, IPTIF, said, “With the evolution of cyber-physical systems technologies globally, India requires interdisciplinary knowledge resources to develop cross-cutting fusion technology resources. In this context, IPTIF is taking the initiative to prepare the country to solve important problems through technological advances by introducing a pan-India initiative aimed at competent resources with a diploma or higher to develop technical skills.”  He said, “We are expecting to train 10 lakh youth in the medium and two million in the long term.” 

Skill development centres to be set up in engineering, arts, science colleges 

As part of the initiative, IPTIF’s Skill Development Ready Centre (i-SDRC) will be established in engineering, arts and science colleges besides industrial training institutes across all districts of India to offer state-of-the-art multidisciplinary training and capacity building programmes for next-generation technocrats, engineers, and scientists. 

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