Historic initiative towards making Chhattisgarh a skill hub: Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai said – “Developed Chhattisgarh will be built only with the participation of every section of the society”
Skill India Mission changed the picture of the country, now Chhattisgarh is making new history – Chief Minister Sai
Raipur, 20 July 2025: Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai has said that “We are continuously working to achieve the goal of ‘Developed India – Developed Chhattisgarh’, and active participation of every section of the society is essential in this. Chief Minister Sai was addressing the closing ceremony of Vishwa Yuva Kaushal Utsav 2025 organized at Rungta University in Bhilai today. Chief Minister Sai said that this event will be recorded in golden letters in history. The team of Gold Book of World Records has certified the training given to 8183 participants within a week and the institute has been awarded a certificate for this. He congratulated the Rungta University management for this free and unprecedented event and said that the state government is committed to make the youth self-reliant and skilled. Chief Minister Sai said that Bhilai is also called Steel City as well as Mini India and the contribution of Rungta University in the field of education is highly commendable.
Chief Minister Sai said that Chhattisgarh has made remarkable progress in every field in the last 25 years and this year we are celebrating the silver jubilee of the state. He said that higher education institutions expanded during the tenure of Dr. Raman Singh and at present, nationally reputed institutions like 15 medical colleges, IIT, IIM, Triple IT, CIPET, AIIMS, and Law University are functioning in the state. He said that the state government has achieved equally remarkable achievements in both education and health sectors. In the last one and a half years, concrete efforts have been made to establish good governance. To make governance transparent, most of the services have been made online, which has effectively controlled corruption and a significant increase has been recorded in revenue. The Chief Minister said that Chhattisgarh is a state rich in mineral wealth and participation of every citizen is necessary to make it self-reliant. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had started the Skill India Mission. When this mission started, India was the 10th economy of the world – and today, in just a decade, India has reached the fourth position.
Chief Minister Sai said that a balance has been established between employers and trained youth through mega placement camps. This work is a proof of the commitment of the double engine government. Describing the Prime Minister Internship Scheme as very useful, he said that this scheme is providing experience as well as economic incentives to the youth, opening new doors of possibilities for them. The Chief Minister informed that special opportunities have been ensured for the youth in the new industrial policy of the state government. There is a provision to give grants to industries employing more than one thousand local youth. Additional concessions have been given in areas like Bastar and Surguja. He informed that activities of Skill India Mission have started in all 32 development blocks of Bastar. He said that to promote ease of doing business and ease of living, the process of clearance to industries has been made very simple through single window system. This has accelerated investment in the state. So far, investment proposals worth more than Rs 6 lakh crore have been received, the process of approval of which is in progress.
Chief Minister Sai said that recently a pharmaceutical company has been launched in Nava Raipur. This was possible due to two reasons – one, Nava Raipur has been developed as a pharma hub, and second, special provisions have been made in the new policy for the pharma industry. He also informed that the foundation stone of the state’s first semiconductor unit has been laid recently. The contribution of special grants for investment in AI and IT sector is behind this. The Chhattisgarh government has also established the country’s first AI data center park in Nava Raipur. The Chief Minister praised the private institutions, especially Rungta University, and said that they are developing Chhattisgarh as a skill hub by becoming full participants in the efforts of the state government. He congratulated the participants and the university family on this historic achievement.
It is noteworthy that a historic step was taken towards making Chhattisgarh a skill hub in the closing ceremony of Vishwa Yuva Kaushal Utsav 2025 organized at Rungta University, Bhilai. In the program, 8183 youth were given training in various skills through online medium. 25 selected participants were honored by Chief Minister Vishnudev Sai by giving them certificates. A joint degree program was launched with Google, IBM and International Council. MoU was signed between Harvard and Cambridge universities. The record of training the maximum number of participants in a week was confirmed by the World Book of Records. On this occasion, MP Vijay Baghel and MLA Rakesh Sen also addressed the program and praised this historic event. He said that this initiative is a revolutionary step towards making the youth globally competitive. Rungta University Vice Chancellor Santosh Rungta gave information about the activities of the university in the welcome address and said that the institute is constantly working with the state government to make Chhattisgarh a global skill hub. On this occasion, Divisional Commissioner S.N. Rathore, IG R.G. Garg, Collector Abhijeet Singh, professors of Rungta University, subject experts, professors and a large number of students were present.
