LTSU to Skill 30000 youths in Punjab by 2025
Rajnish Sareen
Nawanshahr 30 May,2022
Lamrin Tech Skill University Punjab is first of its kind state skill university incubated by IBM as Anchor Partner, TATA Technologies & Ansys as Industry Partners and RERT as academic Partner established under Govt of Punjab under state Act no of 22 of 2021 with the investment of 1630 crores. The university is focused on skilling the youth of Punjab to provide them gainful employment .The youth today is unemployable which leads in their migration to other countries for livelihood and influx of migrant labour from other states. To achieve this objectives Lamrin Tech Skills University organized Industry meet in collaborations with Distt Industrial Centre , Distt Hoshiarpur, more than 30 leading industries were invited for deliberations regarding this Initiative Dr. Sandeep Singh Kaura Chancellor, Lamrin Tech Skills University, Punjab welcomed the delegates from various industries of surrounding area and emphasized the need of integrated skill courses in lines with the Govt of Punjab s vision to stop brain drain and provide employment opportunities in Punjab so that youths of Punjab might be placed in domestic jobs with in the state as to make industry ready professional work force. Dr Sandeep Kaura shared that LTSU has taken up the task of skilling and upskilling 30 thousands youths as per industry standards by 2025 and provide them with decent employment along with a career progression pathway. Students or work force who have skills but not certifications will be trained and LTSU will also provide NSQC programs for dropouts and invited the valuable inputs from various Industrial delegates participating in the session so that existing work force might be trained asper their requirement which will enhance the quality and offered them the opportunity to increase their production and efficiency. High level officials from industry, while deliberating on the agenda, emphasized the need of ready to work employees for different sectors. Discussing further LTSU officials added that to fulfil the requirement of industry, LTSU is going to