Skilling should be aligned with job market's needs: Jayant Chaudhary

Skilling activities should be aligned with the requirements of the industry and the job market, Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary said on Wednesday.

Inaugurating the Airbus-Tata STRIVE skill development centre here, the Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister also asked the two companies to further deepen their collaborations with higher education institutions.

"It (skilling) needs to be completely aligned with industry, with the requirements of the job market, with the labour market. It needs to be to accentuate what is already present in India," the minister said.

Later talking to reporters, he mentioned increasing migration from rural to urban areas and said everyone might not be getting jobs.

Against this backdrop, the minister pitched for encouraging development of entrepreneurship skills among youth.

The centres at Delhi and Bengaluru will offer courses in the field of Information Technology (IT) such as cybersecurity, ethical hacking, web designing, cloud computing a