SICB officers return from inspection visit to placement options in Maharastra and Madhya Pradesh

POSITIVE FEEDBACK LEAD TO INITIATION OF BASIC TEACHERS’ TRAINING COURSE

GANGTOK, 03 Oct: Officers from the State Institute of Capacity Building (SICB) recently undertook a weeklong visit to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh to assess facilities provided by employers to the trainees of Livelihood Schools placed at Mumbai, Gwalior, Indore, Bhopal and Ujjain.
SICB Chief Administrator, SD Dhakal, informs that the Joint Chief Administrator KB Pradhan and Deputy Director Ranjan Rai, who undertook the inspection visit, interacted not only Sikkimese youth employed at these facilities [after their training at Livelihood Schools here], but also held special meetings with the employers and have returned with an update on the facilities and terms of services.
An SICB press release informs that a sizeable number of trainees, after completion of a course at Core Skill Development, have been placed at Sohum SPA, Yatharth Futuristic Academy (Bhopal), Mastermind International School, and Shri Sanskara Academy at different locations in Madhya Pradesh.
The touring officers interacted with the employed Sikkimese youth and found that they have been offered a salary package of Rs. 10,000 with free accommodation and transport facilities at all locations.
The trainees of Livelihood Schools for computer hardware and software are placed as computer faculty in private schools in Madhya Pradesh.
The release adds that the officers also held a special meeting with Core Education Group, a pioneer on Skill Development within India and abroad and explored the possibility of placing more persons in different private schools in Madhya Pradesh and met the authorities of the schools as well.
The authorities have given the excellent feedback and expressed their full satisfaction of the work being carried out by them.  They also urged to train more youth for employment in their schools in future and insisted to provide them the basic knowledge on teaching, the release states.
In view of this, the SICB has immediately [wef 01 Oct 2012] started a Basic Teacher’s Training Course at Gangtok for 50 trainees to meet the requirement of the these schools, the release informs. Similarly, a batch of 50 trainees is being trained at Namchi Centre from 01 November onwards, the release adds.
The SICB is exploring all possibilities to train youth in different skills in demand in the job market and it was in pursuance of this aim that a new Livelihood School on Construction Trade was recently started at Turuk.  A batch of 42 trainees have already passed out from the Chakung Livelihood School on Construction Trade and are now self employed and engaged in the construction of houses in their respective localities under CMRHM and REDRH houses, the release informs.