"One of the greatest concerns people have had is how to improve skills and how to enable people move up the line and not families and their children to succeeding generations as unskilled manual labourers," Ramesh said here.
He was speaking during the launch of a joint initiative by global education and media major Pearson and the state government to provide vocational training to school students in Assam under the proposed National Vocational Education Qualification Framework (NVEQF) here.
"One of the decisions taken by the Rural Development ministry is that for those families, which have completed 100 days of employment under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), we would take one youth from that family and give skilled training to that person," Ramesh said.
He said that state government's skill development initiatives could be focussed in this direction.
Ramesh said firms like IndiaCan, a Pearson operating company, can play a very important role.
"Roughly about 8 per cent of the families (under MGNREGA), including in Assam, have crossed 100 days of employment and now what we are going to do is to identify them," he said.
