Charanjit Singh Channi assumes charge as Technical Education Minister on Monday. Photo courtesy: Facebook Charanjit Channi

‎Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 20

Charanjit Singh Channi on assuming charge as Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister on Monday said his priority would be to ensure professional training to the youth of the state. ‎He said evaluation of the present syllabi in the technical education institutes would be carried out, which would be replaced by the syllabi in accordance with demands of today’s technologically driven era and would be of the level of IITs and other prominent institutes.

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The Minister said it would be his endeavour to substitute the outdated courses with the ones which would be job-oriented. He said the intelligent students would be sent abroad for higher studies at government expense which would save them from being exploited by unscrupulous agents.