ATDC organised a workshop on skilling India at their different centers and campuses pan India, July 15 and 16. The government plans to provide financial assistance ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh to 34 lakh youth seeking to attend skill development programs over the next five years. 160 training partners and 1,722 trainers are connected with the National Skill Development Mission.

Meanwhile Julferker Ali Bhutto, a student of ATDC’s Rohini center in Delhi, will represent India at the World Skills Meet from August 14 to 17 to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He won at the national level in the fashion technology section in world competitions.

ATDC is launching apparel manufacturing and entrepreneurship as a new three year program, which will open up avenues for Gen next entrepreneurs. There are currently 12 million people directly working in the apparel sector. It has the highest employment potential with nine million additional people required till 2022.

ATDC is the largest skill vocational training provider in the country with over 176 centers having trained over 165,000 candidates. The target is to train 78,000 candidates over the next two years across ATDC-SMART centers. A new version of Skill Development Policy 2015 has been brought out with a separate section on entrepreneurship.

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