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Rajasthan is 1st state incorporating skill development program in higher education
Rajasthan has become the first state to incorporate skill development programme in the higher education
The State’s Higher Education Minister Kiran Maheshwari and Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU prof Ravindra Kumar has launched the incorporate skill development programme in the higher education on 10 October 2017 in Jaipur.
The state department of college education in collaboration with IGNOU has prepared 16 courses for entrepreneurship and skill development for college in the state.
12 certificates and 4 diploma courses will be run and each college will be required to choose five courses under the project.
Under the project, 94 colleges have already joined the project and 5656 students have required themselves in it.
The practical training of the student pursuing the skill development courses will be done in different government departments.
The states' Higher Education Minister Kiran Maheshwari expressed hope the more than 10 thousand students will be enrolled in the programme in the next season.
