Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday inaugurated a Construction Skill Training Centre at Gogamukh in Dhemaji district for Assam Building & Other Construction Workers Welfare Board-registered construction workers and their family members. A joint initiative of the Government of Assam and Larsen & Toubro, the Construction Skill Training Centre has been established with the objective to provide skill training enhancement for registered construction workers, align trained resources in the construction industry from workmen to supervisors, connect trainees with future skills and modern technology, and training of unemployed youths with employable construction skills.
Speaking at the occasion, Chief Minister Dr. Sarma said the ongoing massive construction activities across the State have led to creation of large-scale employment opportunities here. Lack of requisite skills is leading to the State’s youths migrating to other States of the country for employment opportunities and taking up extremely low-paying jobs there, he said. He stressed upon the need for youths from the State to get them trained in new-age, modern technical works so that they can make the best use of the well-paying and remunerative job opportunities available across the country as well as abroad. With the aim of up skilling the skills of the State’s youth, the Government of Assam had joined hands with L&T and the Construction Skill Training Centre inaugurated today was an outcome of that tie-up, he added. Stating that a number of major rooftop solar panel projects would be launched in the State in days to come, Chief Minister Dr. Sarma appealed to the youths to get themselves trained in solar technology so that employment and earning opportunities the sector would unveil don’t slip out of their hands. He said L&T has been asked to train those who enrol into Construction Skill Training Centre in rooftop solar panel installation.
The Chief Minister said L&T shall also provide employment opportunities to those who complete the 90-day training at the Construction Skill Training Centre. Stating that Construction Skill Training Centre at Gogamukh was just the beginning, Chief Minister Dr. Sarma said the government is also going ahead with establishing similar institutions in Nalbari and Jorhat districts. The State government is committed to proving state-of-the-art skill training in various fields and the upcoming Skill University, construction of which is ongoing, is a manifestation of that commitment, he added. The Chief Minister further added that the State government is going ahead with all its energy in filling up the vacant positions in the government sectors. Today’s event was attended by Education Minister Dr. Ranoj Pegu, Minister of Skill, Employment & Entrepreneurship Jayanta Mallabaruah, Minister of Labour Welfare Sanjoy Kishan, Chief Executive of Mising Autonomous Council Paramananda Chayengia, Member of Parliament Pradan Baruah, Member of Legislative Assembly Manab Deka, Principal Secretary to Government of Assam B. Kalyan Chakravarthy and top officials of L&T, along with a host of other dignitaries.