OREANDA-NEWS. September 01, 2015. A Scheme of Skill Training Centers in Madarasas of the Ministry of Minority Affairswas launched in Patna today on Pilot Project basis. The Scheme involves linking of Traditional Educational Institutions like Madarasas/ Maktabs/ Monasteries and others, with skill training for the Minority Communities. Dr Najma Heptulla, the Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Minister of Agriculture jointly inaugurated the Skill Training Centers in Madarasa Idara-e-Shariah, Sultanganj, and via remote video link in Madarasa Anjuman Islamia, & Madarasa Islamia Anjuman Rafaqul Muslimin, Motihari, on this occasion.

A budget provision of Rs. 3.60 Crore has been made by Maulana Azad National Academy (MANAS) for this Pilot Project for setting up skill training centers in these 3 Madarsas and conducting skill development/up-gradation training for minority communities, by MANAS through its Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs).

MANAS will act as a facilitator, bringing on-Board Traditional Educational Institutions of Minorities like Madarsas/ Maktabs/ Monasteries and  others who have vacant space/buildings available to collaborate with its PIAs, who are high quality training providers, capable of setting up training infrastructure within the available space in these institutions. These training centers will be established /developed as per the norms of Sector Skill Councils (SSCs)/National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) to maintain the standard of the training programme.

Launch of the Skill Training Centers through traditional educational institution is an important milestone towards achieving the objective of skilling minorities community with speed, scale and standards across the country. This scheme would bring together key stakeholders accelerating the process of their gainful integration with the workforce of the entire country, by providing them sustainable livelihoods with primarily focus on self-employment.

MANAS have evolved comprehensive real-time monitoring and  evaluation framework to ensure quality, credibility & scalabilities of the training programme. By leveraging technology the entire activity chain has been broken into segment/stages inter-linked to each other from planning, execution, evaluation and post placement tracking and each segment/stages is fully captured by an Application in online software.

A call center “Karobari Salahiyat” has been established by the MANAS to assist and support for newly trained entrepreneurs under E&SDP of MANAS. It will also provide online platform to the trainees trained under E&SDP, to promote their product, prepare the catalogue of products with picture, price, description and size etc. and display it on website for e-marketing.

 Objective of launching of the scheme is to highlight the significance of skilling, vocational education and entrepreneurship amongst the minority community of the country and make them feel that by skilling, re-skilling, and up-skilling at their door-steps, so that they shall also become an integral part of the Skilling India Mission.