financial conditions of their families they lack basic communication skills so we have devised a onehour training schedule to impart interactive skills to these youngsters where we teach them how to talk respond communicate etc basic english and computer skills are also imparted he addedrawal who recently bagged a job in the real estate sector at a monthly salary of rs 40000 said interactions on the job dont bring on anxiety anymore i am able to communicate better and can interact confidently he saidakash kumar 18 from kasna wants to join a mobile repairing unit once trained while sandhya kumari 20 who is being trained as a dsre wants to take up a marketing job but there are hard yards to put in initially the starting salaries of rs 80009000 per month along with distances from home are a deterrent for women who also have to deal with family pressure of dropping out if they have to commute to the job centres by themselves because of safety concerns we have decided to take consent letters from parents of these youths before registering them for training we also look for placements near their homes bhati saidpraveen kumar operations manager at the mubarakpur centre maintained that while local industries provide employment to these youths at nominal salaries getting placement in mncs and big companies is still a far cry they require a degree or diploma as minimum qualification with communication skills in english so we are working on improving their communication and computer skills in addition to imparting technical training so that they are equipped to get better placements kumar saidso far over 56 youths from the five sdcs have found placement in different local industries real estate ventures and other businesses during the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic the centres that were launched in july last year had stopped their training programmes the courses resumed in december last yearwhile each sdc is under different training partners they individually have a target to train 100 to over 400 youth in batches of 30 to 40 while prash enterprise is running two centres one in village mubarakpur near a government primary school and the second at tradex tower sector alpha1 their target is to train a total of 430 youths sachin kumar gnida officer on special duty saidsimilarly ss care pvt ltd is training youths at noida near the abes engineering college with a target to train 100 youths fun first global skills pvt ltd which runs the jewar sdc has a target to train 210 youthsgreater noida industrial development authority gnida chief executive narendra bhooshan said the region is a big hub of industrial investment with employment opportunities galore it is important to skill local youths according to the needs of these companies with this singular objective the skill development training programmes were rolled out he saidin association with the uttar pradesh skill development mission upsdm gnida has organised employment training fairs in december and march where 1122 youth registered for