New Delhi [India], October 4 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday felicitated 46 toppers from the Industrial Training Institutes at the Kaushal Deekshant Samaroh at Delhi's Vigyan Bhawan, and also unveiled various youth-focused initiatives worth more than Rs 62,000 crore.
The Kaushal Deekshant Samaroh was the fourth edition of the National Skill Convocation, where the toppers from the ITIs under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship are felicitated.
Calling ITIs "workshops of Atmanirbhar Bharat", PM Modi said, "ITIs are not only premier institutions of industrial education; they are also the workshops of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. Our focus is on upgrading them, along with increasing their numbers. There were 10,000 ITIs till 2014, and in the last decade, 5,000 n