By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: The Ajmal Foundation in association of British Deputy High Commission, Kolkata has entered into collaborative arrangements to provide adequate communication and employability skills to the uneducated youths of Assam by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a 100 year old Birmingham (UK) based Bournnville College at Hojai in Assam’s Nagaon district recently.
The main focus of this agreement is to provide skill training. Under this agreement the Ajmal Foundation will train around 200 uneducated youths in different district of Assam over the period of six months in association with the Bournville College, UK.
The authorities of Bournnville College and Ajmal Foundation pose for photos after signing the agreement at Hojai.
After signing the agreement, director of South Asia Development of Bournville Sudeshna Chatterjee said, “To train quality training for uneducated youths in this region. Bournville College will provide all the necessary support to Ajmal Foundation”.
Lauding the activities of Ajmal Foundation towards the development of the society, Chatterjee further said that Bournville College, UK is very keen to work with Ajmal Foundation for the skill development programme of this region in future.
Speaking on the occasion, Ajmal Foundation’s manager Khasrul Islam said, “We are very eager to work jointly with Bournville College, UK, to provide employability skills among the uneducated youths. In fact, we are working in the field of skill training and employment generation from the past couple of years and we are very happy that we have already trained 8000 youths under the projects of Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and most of them have been employed across India”.
“This kind of training will develop employability skills among youths which are very essential to get employment opportunities for uneducated & unemployed youths,” Islam further added.
Following the agreement signing ceremony, a workshop ‘Train the Trainers’ was conducted in the conference hall of Maryam Ajmal Women’s College of Science & Technology, Hojai for two days and 15 trainers of Ajmal Foundation attended the program.
Kajori Khasnobish, the Master Trainer of Bournville College was very impressed to see the quality of the trainees of Ajmal Foundation. She said, “I’m convinced that the program will be a very successful one as the trainees of Ajmal Foundation was found to be very well skilled and dedicated.”
Both the trustees of Ajmal Foundation – Dhubri MP Moulana Badruddin Ajmal and Barpeta MP Sirajuddin Ajmal expressed their satisfaction over the international collaboration of Ajmal Foundation to skill up unemployed youths of Assam to get employment opportunities in multi-national Companies (MNCs) and thus their economic self-sufficiency will be ensured and the rampant unemployment issue of Assam to some extent will be well addressed.