25 new World Class Skill Centres are coming up in Delhi in 2 phases!

March 2019 will see six world class skill centres (WCSCs) open in Delhi, Education Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Friday. The skill centres being opened by the Delhi government will have a total capacity of 720 seats and will prepare students to acquire different professional skills. Sisodia said that a total of 25 such skill centres will be set up in Delhi, 19 of which will be made functional in August.

As soon as the admission process is over, they will be started formally," Sisodia told reporters.

Importance of skill development

"The central government has also been taking about skills but what they did was that they made Sachin Tendulkar stand with a plumber in an advertisement. Plumbing is a skill but hospitality, banking also have opportunities for skills. Having a skill means a youth is standing on his feet with a professional approach," said the education minister of Delhi.

He said skill is the future of education and it is important to impart skill education. He also said that entrepreneurship be also included as a skill so that the skill centres can give rise to job givers rather than job seekers.

The recruitment process for the hiring of Chief Operating Officers, Master Trainers, Office Executives and Support Staff has already been initiated for the WCSCs and will be completed by February, Sisodia said.

Where will the six world-class skill centres be located?

All the new WCSCs will open in the existing ITIs, polytechnics, engineering colleges and universities of the Department of Training and Technical Education.

"Availability of unutilised space in the existing buildings of ITIs, polytechnics, degree colleges and universities was explored by the Department. Accordingly, 25 institutes were identified where the opening of WCSCs was found feasible," the government said in a statement.

Here are the locations:

Institute of Basic Business Studies (Pusa)

IIT, Dwarka

Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University

Society for Self Employment (SSE), Wazirpur

SSE, Jhandewalan

RIT Rajokari

In which areas will courses be offered at these new skill centres in Delhi?

As per the minister, these are the sectors wherein skill development courses will be offered:

Health and Wellness

IT and IT-enabled Services

Retail Management

Hospitality and Tourism

Accounts

Banking and Finance

Automobile

Electronics

Media and Event Management

Production and Manufacturing

Apparel

Food Production

More details on which centre will host which course:

The Institute of Basic Business Studies will be beginning admissions to courses in retail services, hospitality operations and finance executive

The Integrated Institute Of Technology, Dwarka will be beginning admissions for the courses of beauty and wellness consultant, computer system operator and hospitality operations

The Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University will be beginning admissions to courses of beauty and wellness consultant, sports fitness and yoga application and sports digitisation and performance management

The skill institute in Wazirpur will be beginning admissions to courses on food production and finance executive

The centre in Jhandewalan will offer admission on courses in retail services and food production

The RIT Rajokri will be offering a course to train computer system operators

When will the admission process begin in these WCSCs?

The admission process for the March 2019 batch in the six WCSCs will start soon, with the advertisement likely to be published next week.

Announcement for these skill centres made back in 2017

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had in 2017 announced setting up of 25 WCSCs in Delhi, after the success of the first WCSC at ITI, Vivek Vihar, started in 2013.

25 world class skill centres coming up in two phases

The government plans to start the proposed 25 WCSCs in two phases -- six WCSCs in Phase I and remaining 19 WCSCs in Phase II.

"Under Phase I, six WCSCs are being set up with all facilities and will be launched with intake capacity of 720 in March 2019, and 720 as the second intake in the month of August 2019," he said.

The remaining 19 WCSCs at Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Shakarpur, Aryabhatt Institute Of Technology, Ashok Vihar, Bhai Parmanand Institute, Shakarpur, ITI Narela, Netaji Subhash University of Technology, Dwarka will also be made functional by August this year. Renovation and construction work at these WCSCs is currently underway.

(With inputs from PTI and IANS)