2 Haryana industrial clusters selected for skill development project

Haryana Economy

Two industrial clusters figure in the list of 19 selected from across the country under the Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enforcement (STRIVE), a World Bank funded project aimed at broadened apprenticeship training of the ITI trainees.
The industrial clusters from Haryana selected by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of the Central Government are Rai Industries Association, Sonepat, and Integrated Association of Micro Small and Medium Enterprise of India, Faridabad.
The industrial clusters selected under STRIVE will get funding of Rs 1 crore each over a period of three years for imparting training to students of the industrial training institutes.
Among others industrial clusters selected by the Central government are three from Karnataka, two each from Odisha, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Telangana and one each from Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, Uttrakhand and Madhya Pradesh.
The government would have a tripartite agreement involving the Department of Skill Development and Industrial Training, Haryana; Directorate General of Training in the Central government and the industrial cluster concerned.
For making the cluster, the department invited applications from industrialists who have 10 or more workers. Nearly 35 industries have joined the cluster.