Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India, has issued approval for skill development in electronics hardware to be implemented jointly by National Council of Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) (www. http://www.urducouncil.nic.in/) and National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology(NIELIT) Chandigarh. NCPUL is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Under the said project, courses approved by Electronics Sector Skills Council and Telecom Sectors Skills Council will be imparted at 50 select CABA-MDTP Centres of NCPUL in five states namely Bihar, Delhi, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The project outlay is Rs 232 million and it is proposed to train 10,000 youth in a period of three years. The DeitY grant is being used to equip the CABA-MDTP Centres with requisite lab infrastructure required for the purposes of the training.