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Haryana to launch intensive campaign to increase quality of education, employability of youth

ANI, Chandigarh | Published : 18th July 2017

The Haryana government has decided to launch an intensive campaign to increase the quality of education and employability of youth in the state.

The campaign will run as a mass movement called 'Saksham Haryana' and to support and facilitate this, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has set up a 'Pratibha Vikas Prakosht' in his office.

This decision was taken at a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister with the Departments of Education and Skill Development and Industrial Training here today.

The Prakosht will work in close coordination with Department of Higher Education, School Education, Technical Education and Skills and Industrial Training. The objective is to achieve 80 per cent grade level competencies in schools and provide two lakh jobs to the youth of the state over the next two years.

The chief minister said the Prakosth would work in mission mode taking end-to-end view on students' learning during all three stages of a student right from primary or school education to skill development and higher education. It will be executed at mass level involving political leadership and state machinery.

To begin with, the Prakosth will have a six-member full-time team which will take up multiple activities with departments, partners and other entities. This movement will be carried out with the support of Dell Foundation.

Haryana has achieved substantial improvement in learning levels at the elementary school level during the last two years, which is also reflected in the recent national surveys, the Chief Minister added.

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