Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Tuesday said the State Government has taken several effective steps towards the development of the youth as an educated and skilled workforce and aims to provide maximum employment opportunities to the youth through industrial development.
With the setting up of institutes of higher education in the State, the pace of research and development in the field of industries would be further accelerated, said the Chief Minister while addressing a well attended gathering after he alongwith Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Satya Pal Singh inaugurated the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi Technopark Sonipat Campus in Sonipat.
The Technopark has been constructed at a cost of about Rs 175 crore.
Manohar Lal said that with the inauguration of this campus, the academic and outreach programmes would be further expanded. As 57 per cent area of the State falls under national capital region, the pace of industrial development has been accelerated in the State, said he.
He assured all support and cooperation to the Central Government in setting up of educational institutes in the State.
He further said that the State Government has taken several steps for the development of youth as educated and skilled work force. On the pattern of Prandhanmantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna, Haryana Skill Development Mission has been set up.
Apart from this, Vishwakarma Skill Development University is being set up in Palwal, he added.
The Chief Minister said that a number of educational institutes of national level have come up in the State.
While, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) is being set up in village Kilorad, district Sonipat, the construction work of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Rohtak is in progress, said he.
The construction work of building of National Institute of Design (NID) in Umri, Kurukshetra is underway and the classes would be started from academic session 2018-19. An additional extension campus is being set up by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi in village Badhsa, district Jhajjar for research and development activities, he added.
Manohar Lal said that with the setting up of Technopark in Rajiv Gandhi Education City in Sonipat, the faculty members of technical education institutes and engineering colleges in the state would get world class training facilities.
Speaking on the occasion, the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Satya Pal Singh said that Haryana Government has made available 50 acres of land to IIT, Delhi for the Technopark, which has been set up at a cost of Rs 175 crore. A sum of Rs 100 crore would be spent on its development, he added.