Gangtok: Expressing concern with lack of
enthusiasm among the local people to take up private
enterprises, Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling on Tuesday
announced that there shall be a capacity building institutes
in each assembly segments of the state by December this year.
Each assembly segments must have a functional capacity
building institutes by the year end and the authorities should
hire accommodation on rent for the purpose in the event of
unavailability of government premises, he said at the
consultative meeting on the capacity building.
Once the capacity building institutes did come up, it
should be the endeavour of the area MLAs and the local
administration to bring the unemployed people there to take up
training to hone their skills in order to make themselves self
employed, Chamling said.
Stating that there was abundance of professional
opportunities already available in Sikkim and many more in the
pipeline in the years to come, the Chief Minister regretted
that the local people were not equipped skill wise to take
up such jobs in the private sector.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, October 06, 2009, 18:15