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YLC officials with the Union Minister of State, Rajiv Pratap Rudy during meeting in Delhi.[/caption]
Dimapur, November 28: Officials of Young Leaders Connect (YLC), who met the Union Minister of State (Ind), Rajiv Pratap Rudy, pitched for a fellowship progamme for emerging entrepreneurs and various other skill building programmes under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in the North East.
The officials met the MOS as a follow up of the 5th edition of Young Leaders Connect in Itanagar in October this year.
The meeting was attended by YLC members including Sushmita Dev, Member of Parliament; Gaurav Gogoi, Member of Parliament; Bjorn DeNeise, hotelier; Founder YouthNet, Hekani Jakhalu; and other joint secretaries of the ministries including Ms. Jyotsna Sitling.
It may be mentioned, earlier in October, the Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy, addressing the inaugural day of the two-day conclave of Young Leaders Connect (YLC) on the theme ‘Start-up North East, Stand-Up North East’ in Itanagar, said skill development needed to be integrated with school education for successful entrepreneurships. He also said the Centre will provide “all possible help” for skill development to the youth of the north-east for gainful self-employment.
At the fifth edition of the Young Leaders Connect meeting in Itanagar this year, it was discussed and decided that YLC would initiate a fellowship for the entrepreneurs of the north-east states. YLC is keen to address the soft challenges of exposure, knowledge dissemination, skill sets and networking for the entrepreneurs from the north east.
A feedback received from many entrepreneurs from across the north east during the fifth edition of YLC suggested that there was an immediate need of a cohort and fellowship platform that will aim at addressing these challenges.
YLC also proposed for skill development of Northeast youth under special category of PMKVY. Most of the people from NE India have a tendency to either stay in their home state or come back after few years of employment in other parts of India.
These people, who go outside of NE region learned skills and take up jobs in different industrial/commercial sectors, remained idle after their return as the region do not holds potentials in the region. On the other hand, there are numerous state specific sectors aligned to traditional skills with huge man power requirement.
Although PMKVY 2.0 includes few courses in-line with traditional skills of NE people, there is still a greater potential to adhere to traditional/local skills of the people and make them employable.
YLC hoped its projects will benefit the unemployed youth as it will provide them a crucial missing link of numerous traditional skill specific trainings along with local employment generation. The project will eventually help in building and supporting NE entrepreneurs with skilled human resources and further establish stronger market links for the products or services.
YLC is an initiative of YouthNet started in 2012 creating a platform for young leaders and achievers of North-East.
