By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: By 2011, the Union Ministry of HRD will establish National Vocational Education Framework (NVEF). NVEF will target those youths who, because of financial constraints, cannot study and are compelled to work in small scale industries like those of glass, bangles, zari, silk, candles and others.
According to HRD minister Kapil Sibal, NVEF is aimed at getting Muslim children and youth, who constitute a huge chunk of labor force in these industries, enrolled in NVEF schools.
Mr. Sibal had briefly referred the ministry’s plans about NVEF while addressing a gathering of Muslim Ulama and educationists at a conference here on August 5.
Sources in the ministry of HRD told TwoCircles.net that according to the plan, vocational courses based on these small scale industries will be introduced as a part of 10th standard in schools. And children who are otherwise forced to work in these industries will get an opportunity to study and at the same time learn the trade they want to work in for free.
These schools, the ministry official added, will be established in districts in which these industries are based. For instance they will be opened in Firozabad, Varanasi, Surat, Bareilly and Agra over a period of time.
Firozabad is famous for glass and Banaras for silk based small scale industry. Surat in Gujarat; Bareilly, Varanasi and Agra in Uttar Pradesh; and Jaipur and Barmer in Rajasthan are traditional zari manufacturing centres.
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