Maharashtra State Skills University to be named after Ratan Tata

Mumbai: In a move aimed at boosting youth employability, the Maharashtra Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, approved renaming Maharashtra State Skills University after the late industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata. The decision was taken during a recent Cabinet meeting, as the state prepares for the upcoming assembly elections.

Maharashtra State Skills University is a pioneering institution focused on creating a highly skilled and employable workforce. It aims to foster job creation, provide high-quality skill education, and support startups, incubation, on-the-job training, and placements through industry partnerships.

It is also meant to promote inclusive growth by facilitating employment and providing self-employment guidance for the youth to enhance their incomes, to support the economically backward communities in terms of providing skill development, employment, entrepreneurship, and self-employment opportunities, and to provide a job-ready workforce to the industry.

Expressing enthusiasm over the renaming, University Vice Chancellor Apoorva Palkar said, Our focus shall remain to be a University that shall scale up employability both by way of developing job seekers and job givers.’’

The cabinet also cleared the establishment of a corporation for the Agri community, which is predominantly situated in the Thane, Raigad, and Palghar districts. The community is involved in fishing, salt making, and paddy agriculture.

The state cabinet approved the Career Advancement Scheme for Teachers in Social Work Colleges, Damanganga One-way Godavari River Linking Scheme, revised approval for Ashti lift Irrigation Scheme, administrative approval for Shanidevgaon Barrage of Vaijapur, transfer of State Agriculture Corporation Land to Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, allotment of land at Panchpakhadi area for Thane Municipal Corporation’s administrative building and land at Kidkali at free of cost for Hybrid Skill University.

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) 2.0 in Maharashtra was also approved in the latest cabinet meet. It approved rail line works in Pune Metro Rail phase II, loan waiver with interest of farmers cooperative factor from Killari in Latur district and waiver of arrears of distressed cooperative subsistence irrigation schemes.

Moreover, the cabinet also approved the establishment of a study group for UMED -the Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission (MSRLM) which is an independent and autonomous institution registered society under the Societies Registration Act 1860.

Its mission is to reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots institutions for the poor.

IANS