UT offers skill development courses to help unemployed

The project co-ordinator said that as compared to males, there are more female participants due to courses such as embroidery, kitchen gardening, beauty culture and sewing.

The adult education wing of UT Education Department offers a wide range of courses to impart basic literacy skills among dropouts and the never-enrolled.

From sewing and soap-making to dyeing and repairing electrical goods, these courses are benefitting around 2,700 people at present.

Director Public Instructions (Schools), Kamlesh Kumar, said, “Our adult education unit is like a platform for all those who crossed their age of formal education due to certain circumstances. This unit enables the poor or the unemployed to earn a living by doing what they already know or by taking few months’ training in a particular course.”

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The project co-ordinator said that as compared to males, there are more female participants due to courses such as embroidery, kitchen gardening, beauty culture and sewing.

He added that the purpose of the project is to help helping those who are willing to work but do not know how. The participants fall in the age-groups of 18-24, 25-44, 45-59 and 60 and above.

Every year, under this programme, the candidates who wish to appear for regular school exams are also allowed a chance free of cost. There are also self-help groups to help the participants avail of loans to start their establishments.

There are 190 centres in the city which are currently involved in this project. Called Continuing Education Centers (CECs), they are situated in the periphery areas and have 230 teachers on board.

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