January 24, 2018 2:29 PM

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Skill development & promoting entrepreneurship key priority area for govt: Dharmendra Pradhan

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said, skill development and promoting entrepreneurship is a key priority area for the government and it is linking this initiative with other programmes like upgrade of rail network and providing all households with power and cooking gas supply.<br/>'<br/>Speaking at a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum annual meet at Davos, the minister said, even connecting households with cooking gas supply at such a large scale requires huge manpower at distribution and various other levels.<br/>'<br/>Mr Pradhan said electrification initiatives also lead to huge job creation and opportunities for skilling. Similarly, the upgrade of rail network also requires skilling of manpower.<br/>'<br/>Railway minister Piyush Goyal said, the government is working hard on upgrading the railways and his aim is to bring back the charm to rail travel. He said, job creation is no more limited to the government and what it is doing is facilitating skill development and entrepreneurship and that in turn is creating jobs.<br/>'

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