Karnataka signs MoUs with private firms for providing job skills to youths
The Hindu
Karnataka Skill and Livelihood Taskforce has been formed to create 10 million job opportunities in the next 5 years
The Karnataka government has signed agreements with more than a dozen private companies for providing training in job skills for youths. It has signed pacts with Toyota Kirloskar Motors, ELCIA, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Aditya Birla Fashions, Wipro GE Healthcare, Home Lane, Sansera Engineering Limited, ESDM Cluster, Mysuru; CEDOK, and many other firms for developing job skills among the youth.A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.