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Honing skills for smart jobs in cities

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Job aspirants at a training programme at Seetampeta in Srikakulam district.

Srikakulam: Scores of tribal boys and girls are becoming confident and skilled in their trained profession and willing to leave their native tribal hamlets in Seethampeta mandal for exploration of a new world of job opportunities to metro cities in and outside the State.

This is a development unthinkable of when youth, at one time, were unwilling to leave the shores of their native villages even for a government job.

All over the training centres boys and girls irrespective of their academic qualification are being trained in a trade and equipped with professional skills.

In the private job world, the trend to delink jobs from degrees and from academic qualifications has set in resulting in generation of mass employment after according intensive training in a certain trade and profession.

The Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) and the Reddy Foundation are jointly running the first training centre established a fortnight ago at Haddubangi tribal village with 170 youth being trained in the first batch in what they call ‘life skills training’ involving time and money management, English conversation, IT essentials, Business processing and outsourcing, personality development, basic computer skills and a host of other essentials for life skills training.

Most of the students, who are undergoing the three-month course, are tribals, while a few of them are non-tribals.All the students are either graduates or undergraduates. They joined the course to gain additional skills in computers and to gain the confidence which is lacking in them before they got admitted into the course. Jyothi, an undergraduate hailing from Peddapadmapuram village in Melayaputti mandal, has told The Hindu that the training has given a new confidence and courage to go anywhere for jobs to make it big in life and to support her big family.

Jeevan Rao, a B.SC graduate of Mandasa mandal, says that he got what his academic qualification failed to give at his ongoing training. The training, he says, is very useful. District coordinator of Reddy Foundation Ram Mohan has stated that the youth being trained in the first batch are very enthusiastic and dreaming for jobs.

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