Dimapur, October 28 : Chief Minister TR Zeliang today lauded the National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) for its proposal to impart skills in various disciplines of Highway Construction Sector to 300 Naga youths within a year, a CMO release said.
Informing the NHIDCL officials that coincidentally, the Government of Nagaland has declared 2016 as the Year of Construction Workers with the aim of imparting skills to the local youth in construction works, the Chief Minister expressed his gratitude to the Corporation and extended the Government’s full cooperation to make its proposal a success.
The Chief Minister directed officials to liaise with the department of Skills Development and ensure that sufficient number of local youths participate in the programme and benefit from it.
He said this programme would be much more beneficial since selected candidates would be given practical training at the worksites in the ongoing 4-laning project between Kohima and Dimapur, and since machineries would be made available to them.
The Corporation, as part of its pilot project in Skill Development/ Upgradation of Workmen in Highway Construction Sector, is planning to recruit Naga youths with minimum age of 18 years and educational qualification of 10th standard to undergo training (for freshers) a 30-days module of 208 hours to operate JCB, Excavator, Hot Mix Plant, Kerb Paving, WMM Plant, Paver Operation, Grader Operation, Batching Plant, Mechanic and Compressor.
Under the category of RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning), a five-day module for workers at the project site on operation of various machineries would be imparted free of cost with basic amenities and a stipend.
