Mon, July 18 (MExN): World Youth Skills Day was observed at Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in Mon and Kohima on July 15.
At ITI Mon, T. Ao Chuba (IFS), DFO Mon was the chief guest. In his speech, Chuba focused on realising the importance of being called a trainee and not a student, according to a press release from ITI Mon principal, Er. Alongse. He also highlighted how to avail various opportunities for development of skills facilitated by the Government.
Considering the present financial crunch in the state, he also encouraged all the trainees to uphold perseverance and dedication so as to deliver oneself from the bondage of unemployment through hard work and dedication, the release added. Such achievement or success can only be fulfilled when one learns to devote oneself to withstand all forms of eventualities that one has to face, he added.
The principal conducted short orientation programme for the trainees to prepare them for appearing in any competitive examination.
The event was chaired by Pangloi Konyak and invocation prayer and welcome speech was delivered by Wanpoh Konyak, UDA.
SC Sarmah, Senior Instructor, gave away the Best Trainees of the Year award to Threiwang Konyak (Carpentry), TK Chaimei Konyak (COPA), Anei Konyak (Cutting & Sewing), and K. Bemang Ahong (Knitting).
At the ITI Kohima programme, Deputy Director, Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Er. Lipongse Thongtsar delivered a speech on skilling. He said that in India, only 10% of the total workforce is skilled. Among them, only 2% is trained skilled while the remaining 8% is informal/self-trained skilled. But on the other hand, in developed countries like Korea and Japan, 80-90% is skilled workers.
He further emphasized that in addition to one's formal education, one should be skilled in one or other trade. In skilling, he stated, simply knowing how to make things is not enough and that the main thing is how efficient one is in the trade in which he/she has been trained.
He further pointed out that in developed countries, hardly 10% of the total workforce is government employees and the remaining are either self-employed or in the private sectors. “Hence, we should change our mindset because here in our state when we say employment we only mean white collar job,” he stated.
Meanwhile, he encouraged the gathering stating that in order to survive in this fast changing and competitive world one must have dignity of labour.
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