Haryana Skill Development & Industrial Training, Minister, Sh. Mool Chand Sharma said that the participation of youth is important in making the economy of any nation

Mool Chand Sharma presides over a meeting to address the problem of supplying clean drinking water and drainage system in Ballabgarh Vidhan Sabha constituency

Chandigarh, July 15– Haryana Skill Development & Industrial Training, Minister, Sh. Mool Chand Sharma said that the participation of youth is important in making the economy of any nation strong and taking it forward. In such a situation, the role of skill development becomes even more important because in this era of fierce global competition, only the society or country whose youth is trained and skilled can survive.

Sh. Mool Chand Sharma said this after listening to the address of Prime Minister, Sh. Narendra Modi here today. A digital webinar was organized by the Central Government today on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day and 57 new and 6 new mixed courses were also unveiled on the occasion.

During this, the Minister congratulated Apprentice, Fruit and Vegetable Business, Kumari Sneha of District Panipat for making the state proud at the national level, and Vishnu, a student of Electronic Mechanic Trade of Government Industrial Training Institute, Adampur in District Hisar, bagged first position at the state level.

He said that as per to the vision of Haryana Chief Minister,Sh. Manohar Lal, the State Government would provide skill training to the youth coming from one lakh poor families under Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana so that they could easily get employment and help their family to rise above the poverty line. To meet the challenge of COVID-19 pandemic, 6 crash courses of health care sector have been started in the state. Under this, 600 youth are being trained in the state.

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Chandigarh, July 15 – A dividend of Rs 3.56 crore has been disbursed by Chandigarh International Airport Limited (CHIAL) to the Haryana Government for the year 2020-2021.

Chandigarh International Airport Ltd, CEO, Sh. Ajay Kumar along with Sh. Rakesh Dembla Chief Financial Officer and Smt. Avneet Kaur Company Secretary presented the cheque of amount Rs 3.20 Crore to Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal after deducting TDS from this dividend amount of Rs.3.56 crore here today. Chief Administrator, Haryana Urban Development Authority, Sh. Ajit Balaji Joshi was also present on this occasion.

While stating this here today, an official spokesperson said Haryana Government has 24.5% stake in Joint venture formed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and  Government of Haryana & Punjab. He informed that the dividend has been paid for the year 2020-2021.

Significantly, Aviation sector has been hit badly by the pandemic, domestic & international flights have been banned. Even after resumption of domestic flights, restrictions were there on number of passengers, he added.

Chandigarh International Airport sailed through these tough times, earned profit and paid dividend to its stakeholders. The Airport has handled 13.70 lakh domestic passenger movement in the year 2020-21 and 23.23 lakh domestic passenger in the year 2019-20.

The spokesperson said that CHIAL has recently completed installation of In-line Baggage System. With this system, the passengers will need not to stand in long  queues at X-ray machine for baggage screening, he added.

He said that in a move to upgrade infrastructure, it has added three number of Passenger Boarding Bridges taking total tally to five. Chandigarh Airport recently completed construction of 14 numbers of aircraft parking bays and now has 23 numbers of aircraft parking stands at its disposal.

He said that New Integrated Cargo complex with a capacity to handle 2500MT including perishable cargo is being developed at the airport to boost Cargo from the region. He said that the Cargo complex is ready and expected to be operational by end of the month. Southern Taxi Track has been constructed to enhance runway capacity and will be put into operations by mid of August.

He said that flights which were suspended due to Covid i.e  Chandigarh-Patna are going to be resumed and new destinations like Guwahati & Bhubaneshwar are going to be connected shortly.

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