greater noida shyam 22 a resident of mubarakpur village and second among seven siblings hopes to start his own business someday archana sharma 20 from surajpur who is pursuing a graduation course from mihir bhoj girls degree college dadri has similar plans both have enrolled themselves for skill development courses at the gnidansdc greater noida industrial development authoritynational skill development corporation centre launched on tuesdayof the six skill development centres under pradhan mantri kaushal vikas yojana pmkvy gnida opened two units at alpha 1 and mubarakpur the centres would train 430 students free of cost in the field of telecom and electronicsa total of 1170 seats would be offered at the six centres and youths between 18 and 35 years would be trainedshyam said he will be trained as a handset repair engineer and sales representative by prash enterprisesmy father is a farmer and i am pursuing a distance education course i have been thinking of starting a business to help my family when people from gnida came with pamphlets for this training centre i decided that i would join it is a good way to get training and it is free i will be able to start my own mobile phone repair shop after this he saidon tuesday the centres were inaugurated by dadri mla tejpal nagar and jewar mla dhirendra singh in the presence of gnida ceo narendra bhooshan and officials from nsdc said mukesh kumar the ceo prash enterprisesarchana has also joined a threemonth course on mobile phone handset repairing i do not want to be dependent on anyone i want to get a job after this she saidpreparations to open these centres had started earlier this month and project implementing agencies pias selected by nsdc had presented their plans to the ceo and gnida officials prash enterprises had confirmed its readiness to set up the two centres after getting our approval said nitin jhamb from nsdcin the first batch 1170 candidates would be trained in various fields including customer relationship executive dealership and handset repairingthis is a oneofakind project sanctioned for gnida by nsdc and the first project under pmkvy 30 we aim to provide technical training to local youths so that they can apply for various jobs bhooshan said