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Scheme to impart tech, vocational training to poor Muslims
New Delhi, June 27: In an attempt to impart technical and vocational training to poor Muslims, the Central Wakf Council has sanctioned nine Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) under a newly launched scheme for promoting technical and professional education amongst the Muslims.
New Delhi, June 27: In an attempt to impart technical and vocational training to poor Muslims, the Central Wakf Council has sanctioned nine Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) under a newly launched scheme for promoting technical and professional education amongst the Muslims.
Five of these ITIs have been sanctioned in Uttar Pradesh, three in Bihar and one in Orissa, official sources said today.
One of the ITIs located at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh is exclusively for girl students while the remaining ITIs will have both male and female trainees.
Under the scheme, the council will meet the entire expenditure for the first three years, 50 per cent for the fourth year and 25 per cent for the fifth year for setting up and running of the ITIs. After that the institutions in which the ITIs have been set up would bear the full cost for running them.
The council has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with concerned institutions in this regard.
For providing scholarship and ad hoc grant to poor and needy students, the council has set up an education fund.
Meanwhile, the council will meet here on Monday under the chairmanship of social justice and empowerment minister Satyanarayan Jatiya to review the progress of the educational programme.
Bureau Report
One of the ITIs located at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh is exclusively for girl students while the remaining ITIs will have both male and female trainees.
Under the scheme, the council will meet the entire expenditure for the first three years, 50 per cent for the fourth year and 25 per cent for the fifth year for setting up and running of the ITIs. After that the institutions in which the ITIs have been set up would bear the full cost for running them.
The council has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with concerned institutions in this regard.
For providing scholarship and ad hoc grant to poor and needy students, the council has set up an education fund.
Meanwhile, the council will meet here on Monday under the chairmanship of social justice and empowerment minister Satyanarayan Jatiya to review the progress of the educational programme.
Bureau Report