Ensure quality education to youth, says President Patil

Updated on: Monday, December 27, 2010

"The Union Government has started National Skill Development Mission to train 50 crore people till 2022. With this, the quality of education will improve and in turn the knowledgeable and skilled workforce will help in the development of the nation," she said.

Patil was speaking at the Golden Jubilee year function of Kohinoor Institute, set up by Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi. As India has a huge young population, Patil said, they should be provided with quality and value-based education.

"We have over 54 crore young population and by giving them quality education and teaching them values we can use this youth power towards the development. Therefore, we need vocational education institutes like Kohinoor."

Praising the progress in healthcare post-independence, Patil said, "The country has done a good job in the health sector but more work is required. We have to achieve the goal of 'health for everyone' and focus more on rural area, women, children and other weaker sections of the society by providing them easy and cheap health facility."

Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, also present at the function, appreciated the work of Joshi's institute, which teaches vocational courses.

Ensure quality education to youth, says President Patil

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