CM Khattar emphasises on imparting skills to youth as per industry requirements

Chandigarh: Laying emphasis to create more job opportunities in Haryana, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar directed the officers of youth empowerment and entrepreneurship department to ask the skill set demand of various industries and accordingly impart skill enhancement training to youth to meet the desired requirement of industries.

While presiding over a meeting to review the progress of age group-wise assignment given to various departments, the CM further directed the officers of women and child development department to expedite the process of identifying the children out of school, attending anganwadi centres, madrasas, gurukuls and other private institutions in the state. Besides this, he also directed them to upload and regularly update the data of the children with the help of anganwadi workers. To maintain the data record, he said that smart phones be provided to Anganwadi workers.

To reduce malnutrition among 0-6 year-old children, he directed the officers to assess Body Mass Index of the children and update it twice a week on the portal developed by Citizen Resource Information Department of the state and Bharat Poshan portal of the central government.