T.N. government’s skill development training helps unemployed tribal youths get jobs
The HinduUnder its Comprehensive Tribal Development Programme, the Tamil Nadu government’s Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department has successfully conducted soft skills training programmes for 146 young persons from Scheduled Tribes and provided them employment opportunities in Customer Relationship Management and Computer Numerical Control domains in various companies. The Tribal Welfare Department chalked out a plan to identify and conduct a training programme for youth from Scheduled Tribe communities who have completed an ITI, diploma or degree course and remain unemployed or underemployed. A door-to-door survey conducted by the teachers of Government Tribal Residential Schools in various districts identified 450 unemployed youth, said G. Laxmi Priya, Secretary, Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department. S. Annadurai, Director, Department of Tribal Welfare, said following the success of this pilot project, the department is planning to expand it by training more unemployed and underemployed youth from Scheduled Tribe communities.