Govt will set up skill academy and digital university: Himachal Pradesh minister
Press Trust of India | October 14, 2025 | 09:59 PM IST | 1 min read
Engineering and technical education students would be given practical training at these centres, Rajesh Dharmani, Technical Education Minister said.
SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh government will set up a skill academy and digital university to equip students to deal with "emergency-like" situations, Technical Education Minister Rajesh Dharmani said on Tuesday.
Chairing a review meeting on technical education here, Dharmani said that in order to encourage entrepreneurship, various programmes in collaboration with the Industries Department and Himachal Pradesh Housing and Urban Development Authority (HIMUDA) will be conducted in technical institutes .
Engineering and technical education students would be given practical training at these centres, he said. Dharmani mentioned the growing beauty, wellness, and fashion sectors and said collaboration with national brands is attracting the youths to these industries.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- ‘Bitter experience’: DU’s 4th-year students face sudden rule changes, limited options, teacher shortage
- Maharashtra NEET Counselling: Private medical college sues for institute-level admissions, NRI quota expansion
- Maharashtra NEET Counselling: Medical college ‘confined, forced’ him to retract fee complaint, says aspirant
- MahaDBT, CAP Integration: Maharashtra students to get scholarship approvals at admission, no renewals needed
- Maharashtra: 11,000 faculty posts lie vacant; Officials say governors, finance division at fault
- BTech Courses: AI, computer science fuel enrolment boom to 5-year high, but may soon kill jobs, say experts
- Lights fade at Calcutta University’s unique Department of Applied Optics and Photonics due to staff shortage
- CBSE Board Exam 2026: Two exams for Class 10 ‘exhausting’ for teachers, cause more anxiety for students
- In poll-bound Bihar, NEP is leaving university students with endless exams, but no results or classes
- Agriculture courses in enrolment crisis: 10 Maharashtra colleges shut, over half seats vacant in 44 institutes