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Arming them with job skills

Thiruvananthapuram: Aimed at moulding students into job providers instead of employment seekers, village knowledge centres (VKC) in schools in the State have given a new meaning to education.

The Kerala chapter of the Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI) and the P.N. Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra, along with the other development agencies, have embarked on a venture of developing skills of children and equipping them to face the challenge of unemployment.

The centres aim at holistic development of the entire community by providing vocational training and organising awareness programmes through information and communication technology (ICT) on group farming, water conservation, rural infrastructure development, health, environment and socio-economic issues, P.N. Panicker Vigyan Vikas Kendra vice-chairman N. Balagopal said.

The targeted groups were students from classes 8 to 10 and their parents, he added.

``We want to promote the concept of `Earn while learning' among children through the centre and desire the children to be job creators and not job seekers,'' Mr. Balagopal said.

As a pilot project, the VKC was started in six schools in Attingal and Kanhangad educational districts and by 2008, the project would be extended to 100 more schools, he said, adding, ``Our goal is to open 1,000 more such centres, one in each panchayat by 2010.'' — UNI

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