Jammu & Kashmir Skill Development Mission (JKSDM)  organized a webinar today which was conducted by international industry experts. A selected batch of 100 candidates from 'COVID-19 Let's SKill IT online programme', attended the session.<br />''<br />''One of the participants Insha Shafi said that despite the negatives of COVID-19, this training course seems to be a kind of blessing in disguise as it is providing her an opportunity to interact with international industry experts and gain knowledge from their experience.<br />''<br />''This free of cost 10-day, COVID-19 Special Skill Training Programme was started by JKSDM on 18th of this month in five skills namely Entrepreneurship Development, GST, Beauty Make-up, Domestic Electronic Appliances Repair and Maintenance, Customer Care, Internet and Web Designing. The first batch of the programme will conclude on 28th of May.<br />''<br />''Since all academic and technical institutions including Skill Training Centres were closed due to the Corona pandemic such online training courses were initiated by the Mission aimed to make productive use of time of people of J&K during current lockdown viz-a-viz imparting skills beneficial to the people.<br />''<br />''In all, 345 candidates from across J&K which include professionals, home makers, unemployed youth and students pursuing professional courses are receiving training for these courses in JKSDM affiliated institutions.<br />''<br />''Given the overwhelming response for the programme, JKSDM has already started registering candidates for its second batch under the said programme in courses such as cyber-security, GST, tailoring skills (Masks & PPEs), internet web designing, front office operations in hospitality sector, beauty make-up and the training shall start from first week of June this year.<br />''<br />''<br />