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Andimadam ITI is a boon to local youths

M. Balaganessin

TEMPLE OF LEARNING: A view of the Government ITI at Andimadam.

JAYAMKONDAM: The starting of a Government Industrial Training Institute at Andimadam near here is a dream come true for youths in the region.

Students admitted to the ITI consider the State Government’s effort as a “timely help” to improve their technical skills to be in the reckoning for jobs in the Jayamkondam Lignite Power Project, currently under way.

One of the two institutes started in Perambalur district this year, the Andimadam ITI offers six courses — fitter, motor mechanics; electrician; mechatronics; welder and computer programme assistant.

Till last year, poor students in and around Andimadam, who were under a compulsion to start earning, had no other go but to seek admission to the only ITI at Ariyalur or institutes located outside the district. They found it difficult to travel and meet hostel expenses.

In deference to the request of such students, the authorities have shifted them to the Andimadam ITI. For instance, S. Ananthakumar of Vethiarvettu, 15 km from Andimadam, who got admitted to the ITI at Coonoor last month, had now been shifted to Andimadam.

R. Muruganandam of Kothavasal village near Andimadam, who unsuccessfully sought admission to the welder course last year at the Ariyalur ITI, said that he had almost resigned himself to fate when the Government’s decision to start the Andimadam ITI came at the start of this academic year.

V. Dharuman of Kottiyan near T. Pazhuvur had set his eyes on a job at the Jayamkondam Lignite Power Project.

The Principal (in-charge), S. Soundararajaperumal, said that the classes for the ITI, which was recently declared open by the Minister for Local Administration, M.K. Stalin, would begin on Thursday. The institute has been temporarily housed in a private building.

The Joint Director, Employment, Tiruchi, R. Rajkumar, said that the State Government had sanctioned Rs.3.66 crore for purchasing equipment for the Andimadam ITI.

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