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JAMMU, MAY 03
Union Minster for Over Seas Mr. Oscar Fernandes today said that hundred Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) would be upgraded as Centers of Excellence every year to promote vocational education in the country. .
Mr. Oscar Fernandes was addressing 267th national Working Committee meeting of Indian National Trade Union Congress here this morning.
INTUC president and MP G. Sanjeeva Reddy, besides Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Health and Medical Education Mr. Mangat Ram Sharma, Minister for Rural Development Mr. Jugal Kishore, Minister for Roads and Buildings Mr. Gulchain Singh Charak, state Chairman INTUC Mr. Shiv Kumar Sharma and state General Secretary INTUC were prominent among others present on the occasion.
Union Minter said that under a special plan one thousand such institutes would be converted into the Excellence Centers by introducing latest and market oriented vocational courses.
He said the GOI would provide Rs 2.50 crore assistance to the states for setting up such centers.
Referring to the measures taken up for safeguarding the interests of the working class, Mr Oscar said that it is the endeavor of the union government to ensure the implementation of the minimum wage structure of Rs 62 fixed at the national in every state. He said it becomes the moral duty of the INTUC workers to see that workers are getting the wages as per the set norms and added that the main objective of fixing minimum wage is to eradicate bounded labour system which is still prevalent in many areas of the country.
Referring to the NREGA, he said the immediate objective of UPA Government is to ensure 100 day employment to the unskilled labour with a plan of increasing this to 200 days in the coming years.
He said it is highly encouraging that in states like Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, Labour classes are getting handsome wages ranging from Rs hundred to one hundred fifty.
Mr Fernandes also called upon the INTUC delegates to work for stopping child labour, adding “this menace must stop, if we want to compete with the fast growing economies of the world”
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