From Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: As many as 22 MLAs from Meghalaya, some of them first timers, gained much from their just concluded training in skill development here which covered a variety of topics, with sessions ranging on States’ role in development, changing patterns of employment, Economics of job creation, bridging the skill gap and more.
The training, imparted during a three-day workshop recently, was organised by the PRS Legislative Research, an organization which tracks the functioning of the Indian Parliament and works with MPs across political parties and MLAs from various states.
Conducted in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), the workshop, under the theme, ‘Creating Jobs – Policy Solutions for Employment Generation’, however, mainly focused on challenges of employability and skill development and what state legislators can do to address them.
Talking to The Shillong Times after the workshop the MLAs said that they were satisfied with the kind of information that were provided during the course of the training, something they would otherwise had difficulty accessing.
The Meghalaya legislators also commended the ‘practical nature’ of the workshop.
“We never knew that there are so many schemes for skill development from the Central Government,” one of the MLAs said adding “Once we go back we shall try to implement the same in our constituencies.”
MLAs from the Congress, UDP, HSPDP, NPP along with some Independents attended the training programme in the national capital.
The MLAs also benefitted from interactions with their counterparts from across the country, most of them first timers. Particularly useful to the legislators was knowledge of centrally sponsored schemes.
Apart from the 22 Meghalaya legislators, MLAs from Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Punjab and Tamil Nadu attended the training session taking the total number to 55.
